Quotes About Adaptation

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead.

Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

As Democritus said so simply many centuries ago: "Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.

The optimists claim that through the course of evolution the nervous system has become adept at "chunking" bits of information so that processing capacity is constantly expanded. Simple functions like adding a column of numbers or driving a car grow to be automated, leaving the mind free to deal with more data. We

If a person is unwilling to adjust personal goals when starting a relationship, then a lot of what subsequently happens in that relationship will produce disorder in the person's consciousness, because novel patterns of interaction will conflict with old patterns of expectation.

consciousness has developed the ability to override its genetic instructions and to set its own independent course of action.

A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable. Instead of deciding how to act in terms of personal goals, he has to surrender to the things that his body has been programmed (or misprogrammed) to do.

Jefferson's uncomfortable dictum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" applies outside the fields of politics as well; it means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

THERE ARE TWO main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.