Quotes About Adaptation

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, but never the goal.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.