Quotes About Adaptation

John Lennon dijo que la vida es lo que sucede mientras hacemos otros planes.

Empezaba a pensar que cada vez que me parecía que entendía lo que era la vida, esta cambiaba.

Then something incredible happened. The boy picked me up and carried me right into the house! I'd never even imagined that might be possible. Did it mean that I wouldn't be living in a wire cage with a concrete floor? That I could stay where the people stayed? I was going to like it here just fine.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

Don't rely on market surveys.

intelligence is evaluated by: doing... applying... acting... observing... understanding...thinking... using...etc.?

book Cycles, co-authored by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now" ~W. Clement Stone

Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

There are two problems: i. Problems of today; ii. Problems of tomorrow, for the company that hopes to stay in business

A supervisor comes in and is gone in five weeks. Another one comes in. He likewise knows nothing about this job and has no intention to learn much about it, as he too will move on any day.

At the successive sessions, people may tear up what they did in the previous session and make a fresh start with clearer ideas. This is a sign of advancement.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

So let us do as we always have, and always continue to change the way we think, but let us not change that we do think.

tradition gives the one thing many shapes.