Quotes About Adaptation

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

We measure success and depth by length and time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

I am not now That which I have been.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

Everything changes but change.

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

Circumstances alter cases.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Every dogma has its day.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.