Quotes About Adaptation

Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, "The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

not that the person needs to accommodate him- or herself to yoga, but rather the yoga practice must be tailored to fit each person

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy.

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.