Quotes About Adaptation

If you keep thinking your usual thoughts and doing your usual habitual actions, then the NEW and DIFFERENT cannot enter into your LIFE!

Emotion is an instinctive response aimed at self-preservation.

the brain reads the state of the body and makes fine adjustments, even while it reads the environment and directs the body in reacting to it. In addition, that process continually reshapes the brain by making new connections. All of this is aimed at one thing only: adaptation, which is another word for survival.

Logic doesn't work well for such nonlinear systems as chess and life.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

The coping strategies that initially helped us survive as children over the years become rigid beliefs about who we are and what the world is like. Our beliefs about ourselves and the world, together with the physiological patterns associated with these beliefs, crystallize into a familiar sense of who we are. This is what we come to view as our identity.

Toxic shame begins as an adaptation to adverse childhood experiences. Shame is the mechanism of disconnecting from and attacking the Self. Shame becomes a survival strategy to protect against attachment loss and environmental failure, which are experienced as loss of love in the universe. When shame occurs early in a child's development, their sense of Self becomes associated with shame.

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Good followers do not become good leaders.

It is in the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

There are many places that are not made for staying," Heckleck said. "They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don't root where you don't have to, unless you're unluck.

I did not know it would be like this," complained Viviana. "I hate slugs." "They like you," said Caitri, subtracting one from Viviana's sleeve. "Anyway, you said you wanted to come," she added primly. "I said I wanted to come but I never said I would not grumble.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown.

He felt as if he'd dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. What did you do? Well, you stood up. You rinsed your mud-caked knees and pulled your feet out of the muck. And you were more cautious after that. You knew, from then on, that the world was a smaller place than you'd expected.

His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.