Quotes About Adaptation

Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.

the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation. Do only Germans do such things? The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.

Per i prossimo dieci anni la tua vita sarà orribile, avrai grandi problemi e niente ti andrà bene", dice l'indovino. "E poi?", chiede ansioso il cliente. "Poi? Poi ci farai l'abitudine!

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

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.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

You have to try new things. You can hate failure, but you mustn't let the fear of it paralyze you.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

The Mittelbunders attacked Brussels, taking advantage of the fact that the cold weather meant that many of Boulanger's steam engines were failing to perform well. Boulanger was not a fool and tried to convert his artillery back over to conventional horsepower, but was hampered by the fact that his men had already eaten most of Brussels' horses – and were making a good start on the cats and dogs, too.

The attitude is summed up by a famous scene from the novel Memoir of a Bengal Lancer by Geoffrey Bampfylde, in which the young and naïve titular hero is shocked by Englishmen standing by and not acting while a Hindoo widow is hurled onto her husband's funeral pyre in the practice of suttee.[ 52] His more cynical flinty-eyed Irish sergeant advises him that "To be sure, sor, this would raise a few eyebrows on Hampstead Heath: but you're not on Hampstead Heath any more.

Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

we change the course of our actions according to what we learn is good for our survival. If

What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness;

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.