Quotes About Adaptation

Making a left turn in L.A. is one of the harder things you're going to learn in life.

The aim of any literacy, and this literacy in particular, is to "empower people to choose the appropriate language for what they need to create or express.

As tecnologias digitais criam o ambiente propício para uma nova forma de bricolagem, ou "colagem livre", como Brown chama-a. Muitos podem adicionar ou transformar as criações de outros.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

Did you know that he was the one responsible for the umpire giving hand signals for a ball or a strike? Raising his right hand for a strike, you know, and stuff like that. He'd be up at bat and he couldn't hear and he couldn't talk, so he'd look around at the umpire to see what the pitch was, a ball or a strike. That's where the hand signs for the umpires calling balls and strikes began. That's a fact. Very few people know that.

history is change. You can't stop it; all you can do is try to keep from getting run over by it.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

Even monkeys fall out of trees.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

One must work with time and not against it.

Locked up eighteen years, without even a television set or a newspaper. Needlework might seem pretty important if it was all you could do.

She couldn't be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

Innovation," he wrote, "is rarely about a big idea; more usually it's about a series of small ideas brought together in a new and better way.

We rarely control the timing of opportunities, but we can control our preparation

We are going to innovate ourselves out of this downturn," Jobs declared in 2001 when the PC industry was in recession

As product schedules get tighter and the level of difficulty rises, the first casualty is innovation,

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

Grow within the flow.