Quotes About Adaptation

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.

When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.

If you want change in your life, move 27 things in your house." The point here is to anchor your newest self in your environment by changing it to fit who you are now and who you want to be. Change is an integral part of life, and can be used to your advantage.

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.

Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Everyone always says one door closes to let another open. A true genius already has their foot in the next door before the other one shuts.

Success is not being the best at what you do, it's reinventing the way it's done making it fresh, new and more efficient.

Technology takes processes of yesterday and makes it simpler, faster, accessible, and more cost efficient.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

The particularities of your parents' limitations and dysfunctions became the imperfect "holding environment" you adjusted to. That adjustment, that adaptation, becomes your particular version of you and me consciousness, the imprint on your limbic system of your unique Adaptive Child.

With no one there to help modulate your feelings, you did a very smart thing as that little boy. You shut them down. Closed a door on them.

But most of us do not reenact the experience of the trauma itself. Instead, we act out the coping strategy that we evolved to deal with it.

changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.