Quotes About Adaptation

You can go extinct, or broke. But here we are on the edge of chaos because that's where, on average, we all do the best.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.

UNDERLYING NEED "COPING" MECHANISM

In all things we become acclimated; this is our strength in wartime, and also our weakness. What is a principle, if it alter with circumstance? But what is a man, if he cannot change to meet changed times? And if he can change to meet changed times, is he a man, or several in succession?

How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.

Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don't know any of that. We have tea parties with our teddies. We go sledding. We enjoy being young. We take what's coming to us. That's our way.

people were moving in droves into the city to get new manufacturing jobs. Apartments that once had housed a single family and their servants, surrounded by their comfortable settees, their ferns, and their china, now were broken up and subdivided, with each room housing a whole family.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.

Parece reconhecer-se muito mais facilmente o fogo depois de domesticado.

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.

Change is the key that unlocks the door to growth and excitement in any organization. The leader's ability to inspire a culture of change can make or break their success. Tomorrow comes at us with lightning speed, and our competitive advantage is a fleeting thing. Bill Gates puts it this way: "In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.

donner à chaque chose les tons qui lui conviennent"

Pere?ii au culoarea cameleonului...

Instead, we prepare for the next jump, then the one after, until after a lifetime of motion is past, we are startled, at least a little, by where we are and by what we have become.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

What must it feel like, I wondered, to begin again? Would I still be the same person if I woke up in a different language and another existence?

What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She

Those who see errors as opportunities to learn and try again are the people who will most quickly find new solutions. (This is how our children become resilient.) Those who freeze and panic when they make mistakes will find it much harder to adapt.