Quotes About Adaptation

Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

He espoused a Burkean conservatism of adaptation to changing circumstances. "A conservative in government expects such changes in society as time goes by," he wrote in The Conservative Soul (2006). "His job is to accommodate them to existing institutions." But the Right no longer widely practiced this sort of institutionalism.

Are we willing to change? I hope so. Almost every person I speak to about the future of Catholicism says, "The Church really needs to change," or something to that effect. What we perhaps forget in making this statement is that we are the Church, and so the real question becomes: Are you willing to change? Am I willing to change?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

it doesn't necessarily take genius to spend resources . . . it does, though, to work within the resource constraints you're given.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

But tapping into the creative thinking of inventors and others on the outside would require massive operational changes. We needed to move the company's attitude from resistance to innovations "not invented here" to enthusiasm for those "proudly found elsewhere.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren't that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure of their having been the way they'd been had found release through a necessary valve.

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

As long as the organism is able to act and react it will be able to recover from disease.

On s'imagine a priori que la santé devrait influer considérablement sur le bonheur et qu'il est difficile d'être heureux quand on est frappé d'une maladie grave et contraint d'être hospitalisé. Mais il s'avère que ce n'est pas le cas, et que, même dans ces conditions, on retrouve vite le niveau de bonheur qui était le sien avant la maladie.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

If anything, I have learned that the worst pain never comes when I think it will, and never returns in the exact same way. You go to bed with one pain and wake up with another. It wears as many disguises as a masker at a ball. [Édouard Manet]

You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

Things are never over even when they're over.

CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently—preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were given different ethnicities or races? How would that change the story? EMOTION SWITCH

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

The keys to not just survival but success, Busch understood, lay in diversification, distribution, and marketing.

But like everything else in India, the problem would be solved, provided there was no hurry.

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

You shall not find, in nature's immense crucible, a single living being that has shown a like suppleness, a similar abundance of forms, the same prodigious faculty of accommodation to our wishes. This is because, in the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.