Quotes About Adaptation

The country needs, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. Take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

On ne se refait pas; il faut s'utiliser tel qu'on est. Ça ne s'adapte pas toujours. De là les peines.

was a skill she had always inwardly marveled at when she discovered it in one of her patients, the smooth transitions and fancy footwork with which someone took a nugget of non-negotiable fact, modified it on the spot, and handed it back, an altogether new and tangible animal

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them

The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.

The Clan lived by unchanging tradition. Every facet of their lives from the time they were born until they were called to the world of the spirits was circumscribed by the past. It was an attempt at survival, unconscious and unplanned except by nature in a last-ditch effort to save the race from extinction, and doomed to failure. They could not stop change, and resistance to it was self-defeating, anti-survival.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

We protect children from danger, real and imaginary, and are then surprised when they go to college and create safe spaces designed to repel the real world.

many iGen students seem to see their schools as behind the times, irrelevant in a fast-paced world of constantly changing technology.

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There's a natural human tendency to classify things as all good or all bad, but with cultural changes, it's better to see the gray areas and the trade-offs.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.