Quotes About Adaptation

You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Well, I might even get used to the idea that she had no tail.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions of fish fossils; yet nobody has ever found even one that is midway between them.

Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.

There are two aspects of life: the first is that man is tuned by his surroundings, and the second is that man can tune himself in spite of his surroundings.

Die Arbeit, welche ein/e Sufi als seine oder ihre heilige Pflicht ansieht, hat nichts mit einem bestimmten Glaubensbekenntnis zu tun und auch nichts mit einer bestimmten Religion. Es ist nur diese einfache Sache: im Rhythmus mit den Umständen des Lebens zu schwingen, und auf das Unendliche eingestimmt zu sein.

The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,

We were the new people here. We weren't part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. it means realizing that we won't again fit into our old shells. but that's not failure. that's living.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Most people, when their culture began to run wood through sawmills and build homes out of the dimensional lumber that results, would not have thought to ask what, in our human experience and capability, might be affected by this.

Mixing up your genotype with someone else's, possibly breaking up some bad genetic combinations that had been riding around in you, perhaps discovering new good combinations, and giving your offspring a chance at being a better fit in a landscape that has not yet occurred—these are the benefits of sexual reproduction.