Quotes About Adaptation

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

I sometimes think to myself, 'Who is this woman? It can't possibly be me.' And that's really how you survive.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

When I told people in Dubai that I am going to leave my job here and head to Mumbai, they were convinced that I will not survive in the dust, grime, pollution.

It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.

I don't think I could survive in cold places.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.