Quotes About Adaptation

a person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

So while I still hate to readjust my thinking, still hate to give up old ways of perceiving and conceptualizing, yet at some deeper level I have, to a considerable degree, come to realize that these painful reorganizations are what is known as learning,

colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Clients seem to move toward more openly being a process, a fluidity, a changing. They are not disturbed to find that they are not the same from day to day, that they do not always hold the same feelings toward a given experience or person, that they are not always consistent. They are in flux, and seem more content to continue in this flowing current. The striving for conclusions and end states seems to diminish.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

To respond to our times we must first understand our times.

if you don't ever find yourself recalibrating your decisions, you're likely ignoring some issues that might become problems down the line.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.Let me pry loose old walls.Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

If, adhering closely to the absolute, we try to avoid all difficulties by a stroke of the pen, and insist with logical strictness that in every case the extreme must be the object, and the utmost effort must be exerted in that direction, such a stroke of the pen would be a mere paper law, not by any means adapted to the real world.

The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan

Se la strategia è sbagliata, la situazione non migliora aumentando i mezzi e le truppe.

der Handelnde im Kriege die Dinge unaufhörlich anders findet, als er sie erwartet hatte

nichts gewöhnlicher ist als Beispiele von Männern, die ihre Tätigkeit verlieren, sobald sie zu höheren Stellen gelangen, denen ihre Einsichten nicht mehr gewachsen sind;

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.

Wie soll man die neue Zeit ertragen - wenn sie mit nichts als Mord beginnt?

Most of us adapt; eventually learning to navigate on ground we no longer trust to be steady. We gradually come to accept that our questions will not be answered. We try not to torture ourselves for having failed to predict the coming catastrophe and preventing our loved ones from taking their lives.

it is in how you meet the conditions of life that the quality of life inheres, not in the events or circumstances themselves.