Quotes About Adaptation

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

Generally, it's better to understand that change is a matter of patience and persistence, setbacks and renewed effort, rather than sudden perfection.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

Football is an ever changing game and my team and I must adapt out game and play to fit all new rules and current rule changes"

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.

What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.