Quotes About Adaptation

whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

Creativity is the essence of fencing.

Anything that takes us out of our comfort zones for a while can act as a reminder that the past we are used to may not be our best future.

Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react

We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits.

After the war, it just seemed natural to take what you could take wherever you could take it. There was only so much blood you could sell for $10 a pint. I

You see, another thing I didn't know is that the kangaroo defends itself with its tail. It has an eight-foot tail that comes whipping up behind you when you knock the kangaroo down. And the harder I hit him, the harder and faster his tail came up behind me. I never saw that tail come whipping up behind me, and I never paid attention to the boxing glove on the tail. He had an eight-foot reach I didn't know about. Actually,

Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.

et puis on recommence encore le lendemain avec seulement la même règle que la veille et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares de même que les gr-andes douleurs comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin…

If making mistakes is the inevitable cost of striving, correcting mistakes—and learning how to avoid repeating them—is the best measure of a learning organization that will continue to get better and better.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.