Quotes About Adaptation

one has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old.

One had to live in the new world and do one's best, forgetting about the old; now it was push bikes

You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much.

To date, around 99.9 percent of all species ever to have inhabited Earth have become extinct.

Como Keynes dijo una vez, cuando los hechos cambian uno debe cambiar de opinión.

men live peacefully as long as their old way of life is maintained and there is no change in customs.

For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot deviate from the course to which nature inclines him, and because, having always prospered while adhering to one path, he cannot be persuaded that it would be well for him to forsake it. And so when occasion requires the cautious man to act impetuously, he cannot do so and is undone: whereas had he changed his nature with time and circumstances, his fortune would have been unchanged.

The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.

Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

For one change always leaves the toothing for another.

I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines him to do, and also because, having always prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well to leave it; and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined; but had he changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.

But when states are acquired in a country differing in language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there.

Her zaman iyi olmaya çal??an biri, iyi olmayan çok say?da insan?n aras?nda bir y?k?nt? olmaya mahkumdur.

Machiavelli was undoubtedly a man of great observation, acuteness, and industry; noting with appreciative eye whatever passed before him, and with his supreme literary gift turning it to account in his enforced retirement from affairs.

one change always leaves the toothing for another.

Ma, quando si acquista stati in una provincia disforme di lingua, di costumi e di ordini, qui sono le difficultà; e qui bisogna avere gran fortuna e grande industria a tenerli; et uno de' maggiori remedii e più vivi sarebbe che la persona di chi acquista vi andassi ad abitare.

Ksi???ta, którzy stracili wÅ'adzÄ™ ksi???cÄ… piastowanÄ… przez nich od wielu lat, niech o to losu nie obwiniajÄ…, lecz wÅ'asnÄ… niezdarno??, albowiem nie pomyÅ›leli w czasach spokojnych, ?e mogÄ… one zmieni? siÄ™ (powszechna to wada ludzi nie pamiÄ™ta? o burzy, gdy morze spokojne)

why should one expect what had worked on one occasion to work on another? Machiavelli stressed that if the political culture of a community had changed—if it had become corrupt, or virtuous—then strategies that had once failed would now work, and vice versa.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

for all we know the origin may have been due to a genius like that of Sequoya, the illiterate Cherokee who in the nineteenth century AD took the fact of English literacy as a proof of concept, and proceeded then to develop a syllabary for his own language from first principles.