Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive? — Fred Emery Copy Share Image
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive. — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. — Scotty Bowman Copy Share Image
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an… — Ernst von Glasersfeld Copy Share Image
We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
“the adaptive capabilities of our brains—like pattern recognition—did not evolve to make sense of complex commercial environments like those we live in.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
“Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A… — H. A. Berlin Copy Share Image
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a pretty efficient process, so if a behavior is found widely in humans and other species, it’s a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact… — Kenneth H. Cooper Copy Share Image
“The most adaptive path for you to find your success in these times of purgatory will be in your ability to forget… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the… — Kenneth I. Chenault Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
