Quotes About Adaptation

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.