Adaptation quotes - page 31

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
 Amerigo Vespucci
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.
 Chang-Rae Lee
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
 Charles de Gaulle
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
 Nora Ephron
On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?
 Warren Farrell
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.
 Simon Baron-Cohen
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can\'t make them change if they don\'t want to, just like when they do want to, you can\'t stop them.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
 Andy Warhol
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
 Mark Strong
I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.
 Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
 Darren Johnson
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
 Ryan Sypek
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
 Warren G. Bennis
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.
 Washington Irving
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
 Sonny Rollins