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Quotes About Adaptation

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
~ John Wilmot
Change always comes bearing gifts.
~ Price Pritchett
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
~ Greta Garbo
Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
~ Julien Smith, The Flinch
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
~ Albert Bandura
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.
~ Bobby Robson
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
~ Amin Maalouf
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
~ Hesketh Pearson
The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
~ Ahmed Zaki Yamani
The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
~ Marshall McLuhan
I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me; I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
~ Daniel Negreanu
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
~ Sylvia Earle
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
~ Peter Drucker
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
~ Li Ka-shing
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won't end because we run out of oil.
~ Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.
~ Malcolm Cowley
It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
~ Barack Obama
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Maggie Kuhn
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
~ Alec Douglas-Home
At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.
~ Donald Sutherland
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~ Gelett Burgess