Quotes About Adaptation

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

At work, either you will be telling a machine what to do or a machine will be telling you what to do.

Extraño desacostumbrarme de la hora en que nací. Extraño no ejercer más oficio de recién llegada.»

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

Why call something a play that's based on a text?

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.

But nothing has ever been—nor will it ever be—the way it used to be.

Intelektualac koji nau?i da koristi knjige što su u upotrebi kod ve?ih i razvijenijih naroda do?i ?e do boljih rezultata nego onaj koji ?eka da novina stigne do njega.

The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

La storia è costretta a indovinare. Fortuna che c'è avvezza.

Normal is all relative.

no one is ever ready for anything

Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.

Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.

But no one was indispensable. These guys, they lost a step and the game moved past them. The teams were eternal, but the players came and went. One

Losing is a powerful management tool so long as it does not become a habit.

Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

One aspect of team-building that often gets overlooked is the need for old-timers to have the necessary patience with newcomers.

A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.

Whenever you show up in a new role, it will not be long before you have to face trouble and a clash over something. There is nothing to be gained by stirring it up yourself. Trouble will find you quick enough.