Quotes About Adaptation

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

Over the past century and a half, we've gone from harnessing animals—and enduring all the shit they shat—to harnessing the subatomic motion of electrons.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.

The best laid schemes o' mice and menGang aft a-gley.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang aft agley" (En iyi planlar? farelerin ve insanlar?n/S?kça ters gider)

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.