Quotes About Adaptation

Vivere è una continua metamorfosi. Ogni cosa è cambiamento; ogni cosa è relativa.

They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

she worried about whether I had the clothes and social skills to fit in.

when such improvements are not forthcoming, many people will be inclined to resist change if they can.

And I knew that if we began holding regular news conferences, there would be no going back.

Over time I would become more sympathetic to the behavioral view.

to respond flexibly to economic developments without the constraint of an announced target.

firms would do what they could to stay away.

Their skills were getting rusty and they were losing their contacts in the working world.

which left it unprepared for the shock of the crisis.

Don recommended that we wait and see what private-sector solutions might emerge,

they now occurred in different forms.

Paulson projected a restless energy that took me some time to get used to.

and I tried to come up with something we could do to cushion the blow at least a little.

I was less sure of how well Dan, a lawyer among economists, would fit into the FOMC,

In that respect, it seemed to me, the Federal Reserve was behind the times.

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

I agreed that it would have been better to tie our policy plans more directly to conditions in the economy rather than setting a date.

In any case, the change in our language seemed to work.

Still, the situation was far from normal.

Finally, we must believe that we are pursuing true goals—not merely effective ones. Darwinian evolution leaves no room for the true; it only leaves room for the evolutionarily beneficial.

Nothing had changed. Everything had changed