Quotes About Adaptation

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are already being hurt first and hardest.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.

Spinners are increasingly starting to bowl short, which means they are taking the straight boundaries away. When you play Test match cricket, you can't bowl short.

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

Historically, we've had to think in increments of 30 or 60 minutes. And now we have to think in increments of six seconds to six hours and everything in between.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Change is not indecision.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

Alex, who I play on 'Quantico' - that part wasn't written for an Indian girl. So they changed her background to make her half Indian and half Caucasian.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.

Dire ce que c'est la vieillesse c'est chercher à décrire la neige à des gens qui vivent sous les Tropiques. Pourquoi leur gâcher la vie sans soulager la sienne ?

First, you can't build a nuclear power plant quickly, run it for a while, see what works and what doesn't, then change the design to incorporate the lessons learned.

We're good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we're terrible at getting things right the first time.

Look for it in the world, and you'll see it everywhere. A brick wall is made of hundreds of bricks. A flock of starlings, which moves as if it were a unitary organism, may be composed of hundreds or thousands of birds. Even our bodies are modular, composed of trillions of cells that are themselves modular. There's an evolutionary reason for this ubiquity: In survival of the fittest, the "fittest" is often a module that is particularly successful in reproducing itself.

and experience. Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

A good plan, as I said, is one that maximizes experience or experimentation; a great plan is one that does both. And the best plan? That's one that maximizes experience and experimentation—and is drafted and delivered by a project leader and team with phronesis.

Claire shook her head as she read the e-mails. She had learned to read and write before the advent of the online age and still felt out of place in the e e cummings world of the Internet, where nothing was capitalized, periods were known as dots, and the normal rules of grammar and punctuation did not apply.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.