Quotes About Adaptation

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

New roads; new ruts.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.