Quotes About Adaptation

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Every man is a new method.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.