Adaptation Quotes

"Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting."

- Kobe Bryant

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

- Lao Tzu

"If plan A doesn’t work, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet!"

- Claire Cook

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

""Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.""

- Philip K. Dick

"In my youth, the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald."

- Harley King

"In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

- Mark Twain

"The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm."

- Charles M. Schulz

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

- Carl Reiner

"We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold."

- Mark Perlberg

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."

- Nikola Tesla

"They couldn’t achieve Bliss Brain amid the hubbub of society, so they turned their backs on it."

- Dawson Church

"Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it."

- Mark Nepo

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance."

"Take a bath, you dirty hippie."

- Unknown

"April showers bring May flowers, and also a lot of wet socks."

"Spring is in the air! Too bad we still need five layers out here."

"Spring: giving us a day of sunshine followed by a week of rain since forever."

"Our manager treats deadlines like recommendations rather than requirements."

"My boss practices ‘open door policy’ – open to all, but enters none."

"Inspirational emails from the boss: proof that spam comes from within the company too."

"If confusion was a management style, our boss would be a guru."

"Our boss’s favorite project is moving goalposts."

"Thursday is the new Friday."

- Unknown

"Schenkt dir das Leben Zitronen, mach Limonade draus."

"When nothing goes right, go left."

"Man muss die Dinge nehmen, wie sie kommen."

"If you can't win by fighting fair, fight foul, or have a third party fight with you."