Quotes About Adaptation

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

This was Alec Yarr, who, many years ago, used to pilot a Haddon Avenue trolley from Camden to Haddonfield. Now there are no cars. Buses have answered demands for speed, at the cost of fuming the air and filling it with squeals and droning sounds.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.

what determines how well you survive chronic stress is how you react to it and whether you are able to shut it down.

Much of the problem, though, lies not with how things have changed outside of us but with our lack of a skillful means for dealing with a challenging world.

while life has always been stressful, there is something different about how it affects us

a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn ours, so that he really spoke no language at all.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Kdybych poslouchal své zákazníky, býval bych jim dal jen rychlejšího kon?.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.