Quotes About Adaptation

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Do your best with what you have where you are.

Life's managed, not cured.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.