Quotes About Adaptation

Food is never static; culture is never static.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

As the chord changes go by, I don't so much think about a static chord voicing changing. I just see the notes on the neck change.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I'd be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

It is incredibly exciting to be able to actually go and live on the space station after having worked so long on seeing the hardware built, getting it launched and maintaining it.

When I went in for 'The Good Doctor,' I had just been released from 'Berlin Station.' And when I got the initial role for the 'Good Doctor' pilot, her name was Allegra Abe. That was the script.

In Denver, I was more of a stationary shooter for some reason.

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

The world itself is so full of changes - of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.

That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.