Quotes About Adaptation

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.

Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.

Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.

Natural selection is not evolution.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

The modern girl I played in 'Idhu'... came quite naturally to me.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

Conway and Mead

However, the connections between vacuum tubes could be reorganized, enabling the computer to run different calculations.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

It's a simple working formula: if who you are and what you have- in your relationships, at home, or on the job- are what you want, that's perfect; keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. However, if who you are and what you have is less than or different than what you want, you'll have to make some basic changes.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant.

as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else. -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

There was no stopping us now. We had running water, a heater, a cooker and a road. We were fast becoming slaves again to all the things we had come to this benighted spot to flee.

Realist ist heute, wer auf dem Boden der Tatsachen steht - ein Boden, der in den Plänen dieser gleichen Realisten bereits verseucht ist.

The future is not like a book one can read," he said quietly. "It is ever changing, like the rush of water, or the swirl of sand.