Quotes about Adaptation

You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home.

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day at numbness, silence.

You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading. The light you see when people are in the tunnel of deep trouble is domestic flashes of recognition and kitchen comforts, not Blake's radiance, which would be my preference.

And third, he makes me stronger, because you have to balance so much now—you have to reschedule everything you have to do—homework and him. It forces you to tap into more of you than you knew was there—parts that you didn't even know you had.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

It's not time, Take it easy, Wait and see, It's someone else's turn - none of these stalls are appropriate for a leader in search of change. There's a small price for being too early, but a huge penalty for being too late. The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.