Quotes About Adaptation

Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.

The individual acts only if he experiences a need, i.e., if the equilibrium between the environment and the organism is momentarily upset, and action tends to re-establish the equilibrium, i.e., to re-adapt the organism (Claparède).

to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa.

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

taxi companies had either never thought of these innovations or just did not to bother to introduce

the medical profession of tomorrow will not resemble the current one at all.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation.

One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his/hers by natural right.

When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation.

Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.

Seseorang tidak akan merindukan apa yang tidak dia miliki, tapi sungguh sulit rasanya hidup tanpa benda-benda tertentu setelah dia terbiasa memilikinya.

Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?

Ancient Spanish ranching techniques were adopted—and adapted—all over the American continent and took slightly different forms, spawning different vocabulary, from place to place. Argentines call cowboys gauchos; Peruvians, chaláns; Ecuadorians, chagras; Venezuelans and Colombians, llaneros; and Chileans, huasos.

Viteza cu care se înnoieÈ™te tehnologia ne oblig? s? ne reorganiz?m continuu È™i într-un ritm imposibil deprinderilor mentale.

Fiecare nou? tehnologie impune dobândirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, È™i asta la r?stimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

Nu mai tr?im un prezent placid, ci suntem prinÈ™i cu toÈ›ii în efortul de a ne preg?ti permanent pentru viitor.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

I think hard times is harder on a man, 'cause a woman will do something. Women just seem to know where they can save or where they can help, more than a man. It's just a worry for him, and he feels so terrible when he can't take care of his family.