Quotes About Adaptation

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.

The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

Our time is a time to cross barriers, for erasing old categories — for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result

Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.

A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most primal products and services.

I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.

At one end of the spectrum was the view that humans were on a path of improvement by historical action and unique invention. At the other end was the view that we, as much as other species in nature, were subject to the rough and tumble of global fluctuation and natural selection.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

Hans Christian Andersen: We co-write them. I just don't do any of the writing. I change the bits I don't like and then erase all the rest from history. I'm more like a German theatre director. Or, y'know, a German generally.

The fewer mistakes you make twice, the easier life is.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.

But we can't change history. We can only try to improve what happens today and in our future.

Have you noticed, she asked him, how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

She had held her life to an even keel by killing all deep feeling, by living upon the surface of life.

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but rather a moving forward into a new, differently active phase of his life.

Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.