Quotes About Adaptation

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized. Within

I can tolerate anything, in dog or man, save for the refusal or inability to learn.

It's wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ culturally and physically.

We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific research creeps crablike in a lateral shuffle, where once it leaped in great intuitive bounds; devices change even less, plateau technologies common to us would be instantly identifiable – and operable! – to our great-grandfathers.

Mahnmut hield niet van Frans - het voelde als een te dikke olie tussen zijn tandwielen - Maar het zat wel in zijn database, dus kon hij het vertalen.

to exercise, great. But we're not going to push you. Until you shift over to a fat- and ketone-burning metabolism and get access to the tank, you're likely to be tired. You should feel your energy level rise as your body adjusts. If you find yourself wanting to go for a walk, go dancing, take a yoga class, or lift weights—we're all for it. But don't make yourself miserable.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

One day things can be going along like they always were and then, suddenly, in a simple rotation of an overheated planet, everything can change.

Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. —

Adjectives have become verbs: I favorited it. Verbs have become nouns. How many likes do you have? Time is moving at such an accelerated rate that completing sentences now seems baroque.

They stay like this, two bodies so at home with each other that it is as if each of them had grown and shifted to accommodate the other's shape over the years, like two grafted trees.

He isn't trying to transform himself into something different; he's trying to transform someone different back into himself.

Unless you somehow have a foot outside of your culture, the culture will swallow you whole.

Failed recipes are never the problem. Failing to maintain or re-create them is.

You will become clever through your mistakes. —German proverb

It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be.

was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions

the height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Una organización centrada en su mundo interno puede funcionar muy bien, pero cuando no se adapta al mundo mayor en el que opera, su rendimiento puede acabar sirviendo a una estrategia fracasada.

You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive

Estos avances hacia la apertura resultan muy alentadores porque sugieren que, en cierto modo, hasta las mismas pautas emocionales innatas pueden cambiar.

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo, el «podado», al eliminar las sinapsis menos utilizadas, mejora la relación señal/ruido del cerebro extirpando la causa misma del «ruido».