Quotes About Adaptation

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go."6

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

Prekasno je samo kada se nešto više ne može promijeniti.

Chacun a son monde, le tout est de planter ses racines dans la terre qui nous convient.

Il faut croire que nous, les Polonais, avions la maladie de vouloir changer de nationalité.

Trebuie s? ai senin?tatea de a accepta ceea ce nu poÈ›i schimba,  curajul de a schimba ceea ce poÈ›i ÅŸi, mai ales, înÈ›elepciunea de a face diferenÈ›a dintre ele" Marc Levy în ,,Te voi revedea

Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can about your enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. Never wait to know everything. —Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

If you're good enough to survive, you're going to have to accept that down the road the game changes.

with the newcomers in control of some areas and the pre-existing population in control of others.

The likeliest answer is that, by the time the Saxons came to settle in Britain, they found little that was worth preserving.

Had humans never settled in Los Angeles, evolution, left to its own devices, might have created in a million more years the ideal creature for the habitat: a camel with gills.

a place that receives seven inches or less—as Phoenix, El Paso, and Reno do—is arguably no place to inhabit at all.

Sometimes scientific progress forces us to reevaluate the wisdom of the past. Other times, it reinforces it. The

La vie à la fin n'est qu'une habitude qu'il faut perdre après toutes les autres.

The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

L'habitude! aménageuse habile mais bien lente et qui commence par laisser souffrir notre esprit pendant des semaines dans une installation provisoire; mais que malgré tout il est bien heureux de trouver, car sans l'habitude et réduit à ses seuls moyens il serait impuissant à nous rendre un logis habitable.

As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live; most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable.

We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always, though it often is, his original character developed or withered, attenuated or enlarged; it is sometimes the exact reverse, like a garment that has been turned.

Later on, absence taught me far more bitter lessons: that you get accustomed to absence, that the greatest abatement of the self, the most humiliating torment is to feel that you are no longer tormented by absence.

We believe that we may change things around us to suit our desires, we believe this because otherwise we can see no acceptable solution. We do not think of the solution which occurs most frequently and which is also acceptable: when we do not manage to change things to suit our desires, but our desires gradually change. We become indifferent to a situation which we had hoped to change when we found it unbearable.