Quotes About Adaptation

shuffle. "I told myself that I had to figure out all the rules of this world, but I get now that I've gotta go further.

They all want to live "in harmony with nature" before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious

The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch.

armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.

Instead of dropping fruit, I got a small sapling. "On strike again?" I asked my frozen hand, and dropped the mini-tree into my belt. Seconds later, when I got a second one, I absentmindedly stuffed it into the same pouch. That's when I realized that they'd not only shrunk

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —LEON C. MEGGINSON, professor of management and marketing at Louisiana State University, 1963

Panic drowns thought," I told the zombie, "so it's time to stop panicking and start figuring out how to survive.

To be consistent, those who argue that abortion is "unnatural" would have to say: no penicillin, no lightning rods, no eyeglasses, no DDT, no radar and so on.

No ha entendido que los sistemas cambian y que, mientras no sea el centro de uno de ellos, debe mantenerse prudentemente en la sombra.

Every day at precisely noon a fellow turns up on a busy street corner with a green flag and a bugle. He waves the flag, blows a few notes on the bugle, utters a mysterious incantation, and goes away. A cop, observing this exercise over a period of weeks, finally gets overwhelmed by curiosity. What the hell are you doing? asks the cop. Keeping giraffes away, says the fellow. The cop says, But there are no giraffes around here. The fellow says, Doing a good job, ain't I?

Racetracks close at the end of the day. Once in a great while, a stock market venture of yours might end when a company in which you've invested is absorbed by a bigger company and passes out of existence. But most of the time you will be required to call your own endings.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations.

Cuando el general George Patton contraatacó al mariscal de campo Rommel durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se dice que en el fragor de la batalla Patton gritó: «¡Leí tu libro, Rommel! ¡Leí tu libro!». Patton había estudiado La infantería al ataque, el libro de Rommel. Conocía la estrategia del jefe alemán y planeó sus posiciones conforme a ella2. Nosotros también conocemos las tácticas del diablo.

Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature....How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Life will do anything for a living.

Times will change for the better when you change.

For after all we make our faces as we go along...

Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.

Think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief ( it seems ) they can let go...Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long...Let it go.

Every relation challenges; every relation asks me to be something, do something, respond. Close off response and what is left? Bearing...enduring...waiting.

Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.