Quotes About Adaptation

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.