Quotes About Adaptation

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?

Life is the name of all things that have shells separating them from the outside, the ability to sustain and reproduce themselves, and the capacity to evolve.

When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.

Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

As you know, things change. People die. Everything changes.

I've done this before. I know how it works, but I cannot get used to it.

Letting go does not have to be just because of a death. People lose many things they once believed they would have forever.... Let go. I guarantee that you will not fall

The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren't working. But we can't yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in "real time"; we're even reimagining time.

Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.

Well, no point in crying over spilled milk. Spilled wine, yes.

The past isn't a compass for the future

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

you can plan so that nothing goes wrong in life. But something will, and it won't be what you expected to go wrong. So make sure you're with someone who will help you bail the water out of the boat, not someone who will blame you for the hole.

Maybe coming together as a team meant they could rely on one another to help out when things weren't going the way they'd planned, to share roles and responsibilities.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

I say folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

I thought change started from within." "Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you.

How can I possibly sleep at a time like this?" He sighed. "You will learn that a lot of things are possible.

So it comes about that there are many neurotics whose inner decency prevents them from being at one with present-day morality and who cannot adapt themselves so long as the moral code has gaps in it which it is of the crying need of our age to fill.

Misoneism" — a fear of the new and the unknown

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.