Quotes About Adaptation

The way circus elephants are trained demonstrates this dynamic well: When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank and strain and struggle, but the

It is at first a delicate tightrope walk, which then gets easier as you master the skills required to keep your balance in the new environment. Fortunately, there are shortcuts

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

I am not used to being called a son-of-a-bitch," Sulzberger remarked to an editor after one unpleasant experience, "but I suppose I shall learn to like it.

Perhaps part of the problem, he thought, was that the world was changing faster than people were able to change themselves, and the leaders in government and the press were being guided by theories and assumptions that had once worked but were now outmoded.

The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Annoyance has made me bilingual.

because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly

They evolved into birds.

And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now.

Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.

Are all movies books first?" "Just the best ones.

You know that saying about a frog in a pot? How you can put a frog in boiling water and it'll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it'll adjust and adjust until it dies?

Well, you're always talking about the dinosaurs being extinct. Did they know? How did they feel? Blah blah blah. But they're not really extinct. Because right at the end, he talks about the new breed of flying dinosaurs. They were smaller, bat-sized, able to fly, so when the asteroid hit, these new guys were somehow able to survive. And eventually... They evolved.

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps out a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herself. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on.

Looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished; no one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

We are; therefore, we evolve.