Quotes About Adaptation

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

Necessity is often the mother of balls

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.