Shocks Quotes

“Decisive results come sooner from sudden shocks than from long- drawn pressure. Shocks throw the opponent off his balance. Pressure allows him time to adjust himself to it. That military lesson is closely linked with the general experience of history that human beings have an almost infinite power of accommo-' dation, to degradation of living conditions, so long as the process is gradual.”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, The Revolution in Warfare.

“...the most intriguing aspect of evolution is that it only works because of antifragility; it is in love with stressors, randomness, uncertainty, and disorder – while individual organisms are relatively fragile, the gene pool takes advantages of shocks to enhance its fitness.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder