Quotes About Adaptation

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions.

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Consuming life cannot be other than a life of rapid learning, but it also needs to be a life of swift forgetting.

The liquid modern variety of adiaphorization is cut after the pattern of the consumer–commodity relation, and its effectiveness relies on the transplantation of that pattern to interhuman relations.

uno no es más duro e inescrupuloso que todos los demás, lo destruirán, con o sin remordimientos. Hemos regresado a la sombría verdad del mundo darwiniano: los que sobreviven son invariablemente los más aptos. O, más bien, la supervivencia es la prueba última de que uno está en buena forma.

a young American with a moderate level of education expects to change jobs at least eleven times during his or her working life – and the pace and frequency of change are almost certain to go on growing before the working life of the present generation is over.

La interrupción, la incoherencia, la sorpresa son las condiciones habituales de nuestra vida. Se han convertido incluso en necesidades reales para muchas personas, cuyas mentes sólo se alimentan […] de cambios súbitos y de estímulos permanentemente renovados […] Ya no toleramos nada que dure. Ya no sabemos cómo hacer para lograr que el aburrimiento dé fruto.

The task confronting free individuals was to use their new freedom to find the appropriate niche and to settle there through conformity: by faithfully following the rules and modes of conduct identified as right and proper for the location.