Quotes About Adaptation

The quick fix to betrayal is to understand your people, the environment you currently live in, and the timing. Wrong move and you have no one to blame but yourself.

The snake that can't peel off its skin can't grow. The soul is trapped inside the body; just like a tree inside a seed.

There is no rule of thumb when it comes to survival. Everything is allowed, even behaving like a wild animal.

Those who claim that old is gold are the ones who despise change.

Those who succeed will be those who are open to change. Those who go in tune with the times.

Time cannot be slowed down. Either ride with it or increase your speed to get there much faster.

Transformation is the oldest religion of every generation.

True leadership can only be given to those who adapt and conquer time.

Trying something new and not being afraid to make mistakes is the shortest path to self-realisation.

We must be ready to change our circumstances by changing our mindsets and sometimes, our environments.

We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.

We ought to practice democracy in the correct manner, but not to impose it to those who are still adapting to the correct leadership within their states.

You can be insane today and become sane tomorrow, just give yourself some time to heal.

You can't expect to rule anyone with the memorised laws inside your head, but you must adapt your attitude according to the time in which you are currently living in.

You don't need to master change, you only need to master time. Simply, because there is no change without time and time without change. They are two in one.

You must become mentally or emotionally fit if you want to survive.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

As Wilson outlined the concept, the Court would sit as a permanent constitutional convention, continually making and remaking the law, to adapt, in a kind of Darwinian evolution, to changing circumstances. It would make up law, in Chief Justice Earl Warren's words, according to "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society."4

I've met people in the last year or two who have stopped going to their local church because people have started singing new songs and dancing in the aisles. And I've met others who have started going for precisely the same reason. It's time to give ourselves a shake--to recognize that different people need different kinds of help at different stages of their lives--and get on with it.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

Science does this all the time. People who work at the cutting edge in, say, physics are constantly adjusting their big picture, sometimes modifying it quite radically

Jesus is often seen as someone who can "teach" you to play the piano, so that you can perform Mozart and Beethoven. But Jesus was more like someone who had just invented an entirely new musical instrument, had written some stunning music for it, and was now "teaching" people to play the new music on the new instrument. Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world.

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

It all becomes so complicated, people grumble—when what they really mean is, "I am so used to reading this passage one way that I find it hard to switch and consider other options.