Quotes About Adaptation

Late in her life, my mother embraced the word "fuck" but could never quite figure out its place in a sentence.

Over time I grew accustomed to the sight of a friend's colostomy bag and came to think of Kent State as something of an I.V. League university. The state would pay your board if you roomed with

No one had a houseful of servants or a trained proboscis monkey, yet we'd turned out OK, hadn't we?

These recent findings support the notion that "cancer genes" may not be so harmful if not triggered by our unhealthy lifestyle. They behave a little like the irascible ghosts of ancestors, who required regular offerings in order to stay calm. In fact, they may simply be genes who have responded poorly to the transition from our ancestral forms of nutrition, which were perfectly adapted to our organism, to our modern-day industrial, processed diet

At a certain age—six months for a mouse, the equivalent of fifty years for a human—the mechanism of resistance is weakened.

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

UNDER CONSTRAINTS, CREATIVITY THRIVES

Don't impose your personal working style onto an organization that behaves in a different manner

But we radically improve our skills when we are forced outside of our comfort zone and asked to solve problems that seem foreign, or use tools or methods that seem alien to us. You

once a computer starts directing changes to its own programming . . .

David Sosnowski

Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

you can't waste resources reinforcing failure Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

We will remember, but we will also proceed forward, as we always have.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

I can love October in September. September doesn't care.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible.

So I flew to Bombay. This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939. I