Quotes About Adaptation

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.