Quotes About Adaptation

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

For humans, being able to 'forget' is what allows them to survive through their cruel and harsh lives.

The five elements of the complex adaptive system are conformity enforcers, diversity generators, inner-judges, resource shifters, and intergroup tournaments.

The Athenian strategy moves to the top when things are going well. Spartanism grabs the throne when the world is going to hell.

On the plains and prairies either you learn to shrug off the unpredictability of life or else its dangers become too overwhelming.

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

Sólo si ampliamos y reformulamos nuestra idea de lo que cuenta como intelecto humano podremos diseñar formas más apropiadas de evaluarlo y educarlo.

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

The "four 'F's'" of animal behavior—fleeing, fighting, feeding, and…reproducing—all depend on acquiring information and

Most people strive to adjust their portfolios based on what they think lies ahead. At the same time, however, most people would admit forward visibility just isn't that great. That's why I make the case for responding to the current realities and their implications, as opposed to expecting the future to be made clear.

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

All great companies have passed through bad years that forced soul-searching and rethinking of priorities. How we deal with them will be the litmus test.

Her tecrübe sizi bir sonrakine haz?rlar. Bir sonrakinin ne olaca??n? hiç bilemezsiniz.

Living in the same city as Microsoft, I'm only too aware that, even in low-technology businesses like coffee, the Next Big Thing could knock the dominant player into second place tomorrow. I keep pushing to make sure that Starbucks thinks of the Next Big Thing before it has even crossed anybody else's mind. In fact, Don Valencia is working on it even as I'm writing this book.

Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.

If you're really honest with yourself, as I have tried to be with myself, along the way in building the company, there has been something we have lost. And it's no one's fault and there's no punishment or blame. Weare what we are—but the question is, What are we going to do about it and how are we going to fix it?

When you do something for the first time, questions and problems are the two things you can count on.