Quotes About Adaptation

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.

Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real.

When I moved from corporate to consumer banking, I brought a lot of synergy with me.

My wrestling actually helps my striking and my striking helps my wrestling. I just learned how to put it all together through synergy.

It's not the Dark Destroyer no more, because everything synonymous with the Dark Destroyer I don't want to know.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.

The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Moving to Fleetwood was a shock to the system at first. I'd never been at a full-time club.

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.

I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn't like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors - they just don't know what to do with themselves. You don't know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It's such a shock to your system.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.

Sometimes you have to destroy the past so that you'll learn how to live in the new world.

local eating calls for more ingenuity and self-sacrifice in some places than in others.

Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul —Mark Twain