Quotes About Adaptation

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Necessity teaches all things

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

Over time, and perhaps because of his contact with human beings, the Doctor mellowed and became less irascible. But his brilliance and his passion for justice remained undiminished. …

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Forse questa è filosofia a buon mercato, ma io credo che certi lavori dovrebbero essere fatti da quelli che non si sentono adatti [...]. Sentirsi un po' fuori posto aiuta, rende più vigili.

I had an image of myself and tried to live up to it. One way or another. Whenever there was a clash with reality, it was reality that had to adapt. But that's a mechanism that can't last forever. Gradually, you lose your sense of balance.

F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

An even more pointed reminder of changed circumstances, of course, is the AIG symbol sported, doubtless with some chagrin, by Manchester United, worth £14 million a year to the club when the deal was done thirty months ago, but now as ignominiously conspicuous as mouthing a slogan for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in May 1937: 'You'll always travel Fuhrer class on the Hindenburg!' Man

I close my eyes and try to find the sound of the clock in the living room. There it is, past all the voices, the plates and forks clicking, the feet walking from room to room. There is the clock, keeping up with everything as if nothing has changed at all.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Remember that, in reality, there is no failure, only feedback, and that if we learn from our failures, we are actually failing forward.

Living systems can only count on a limited economy of resources in an environment that carries multiple demands for survival.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments