Quotes About Adaptation

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I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

And since human minds are very good at finding patterns, and ours had recently shifted from looking for bad luck to looking for good, we wrote off setbacks as expected, rather than proof of misfortune.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

Remember—humans once believed the world was flat, that margarine was better than butter, and that an ice-pick lobotomy cured mental illness. Aren't you glad those days are over?

it's important to stay mindful of your environment, especially as you work to incorporate new, more supportive and expansive beliefs.

The unexpected is the plight of innovation.

los conflictos son útiles porque aportan fluidez a un mundo demasiado estático.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

What got you here won't get you there. Marshall Goldsmith M

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

Marriage changes everything.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.