Quotes About Adaptation

We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.

I won so many years in Seattle and then to go to Cleveland... I had a pretty nice year the first year I got there and then the last two years, we just weren't able to make it to the playoffs.

You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun.

It's just so much fun when you're working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It's like a whole new machine.

I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

I feel more at home in Chennai and Hyderabad than in Mumbai since I spend so much time in these two cities.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land and bodies is one of the plant world's greatest success stories. I say

How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land and bodies is one of the plant world's greatest success stories. I say the plant world's success story because it is no longer clear that corn's triumph is such a boon to the rest of the world, and because we should give credit where credit is due.

Artificial selection has become a much more important chapter in natural history as it has moved into the space once ruled exclusively by natural selection.

By producing sugars and proteins to entice animals to disperse their seed, the angiosperms multiplied the world's supply of food energy, making possible the rise of large warm-blooded mammals. Without flowers, the reptiles, which had gotten along fine in a leafy, fruitless world, would probably still rule. Without flowers, we would not be.

Resistance is essentially a form of coevolution that occurs when a given population is threatened with extinction.

the apple couldn't cross the Atlantic without changing its identity—a fact that encouraged generations of Americans to hear echoes of their own story in the story of this fruit. The apple in America became a parable.

depatterning factor." There are times in the evolution of a species when the old patterns no longer avail, and the radical, potentially innovative perceptions and behaviors that psychedelics sometimes inspire may offer the best chance for adaptation. Think of it as a neurochemically induced source of variation in a population.

Acting is not a metaphor but rather a model that you can apply to both life and work.

Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own.

some types of neurons may be found only in specific species.

Churchill quote – "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

Tough. Deal with it. Adapt and overcome.

And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.