Quotes About Adaptation

You can't afford the luxury of spurning contempt. A time of contempt is approaching, Witcher, my friend, a time of great and utter contempt. You have to adapt.

The world is huge," repeated the elf. "That's true, human. But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as you treat anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as if the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in." Geralt didn't reply.

Evolution didn't give you a sufficiently folded brain to enable you to understand.

Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes.

There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus

But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as it the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in.

Pokrok," prohlásil, "je jako stádo sviní v humnÄ›. Z takého stáda, to sa mosí uznat, je užitek. Je uzený Å¡pek, je ovar, je prejt, sú klobásky, sú nožky v rosolu. Tož sa nesmí ohrnovat nos, že je vÅ¡ecko posrané.

I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything. We've got to accept the facts, elf. That's what we've got to learn.

Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources.

El mundo es grande —repitió el elfo—. Eso es cierto, humano. Pero vosotros cambiasteis el mundo. Al principio lo cambiasteis a la fuerza, obrasteis con él como con todo lo que ha caído en vuestras manos. Ahora resulta que el mundo ha comenzado a adaptarse a vosotros. Se ha plegado ante vosotros. Os obedece.

Dormi, Gatto del Cheshire?» «Ci provo.» «Be', allora dormi, tigre che ardi vivida nelle foreste della notte. Non ti disturberò.» «Sono steso sulla manica della tua redingote. Che succederà quando vorrai alzarti?» Sorrise. «Taglierò la manica.»

I would argue that when mutation is spread over a sufficiently long period it ceases to be mutation and becomes evolution.

And they dare say that we, humans, invented all the dirty tricks. On the other hand…' 'Hem, hem?' coughed Ori Reuven, surprised by his boss's sudden – and then continuing – silence. 'On the other hand, they may have finally begun to learn from us,' said the spy coldly, looking down at the denunciations, interrogation reports and death sentences.

when mutation is spread over a sufficiently long period it ceases to be mutation and becomes evolution.

Then you'll go hungry. Unless you change your line of work." "To what?" "Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do. Become a priest and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Mi sono già scusato. Frequentando questa stimabile compagnia mi sono rassegnato a molte cose e abituato ad altrettante. Ma ho conservato l'abitudine di scusarmi una sola volta.»

The place of every creature from the forests and swamps that becomes extinct is occupied by something else, some new mutation, adapted to the artificial environment created by people.

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

Ã…Å¡wiat siÄ™ zmienia, sÅ'oÅ"ce zachodzi, a wódka siÄ™ koÅ"czy.

Our tendency is to try something a few times, and if it works, it gets reinforced, and we continue to do it; if it doesn't work, we abandon it. In psychology this is called the law of effects—we tend to keep doing things we are rewarded for doing. The opposite, however, is also true: we tend to avoid what punishes us or gives us pain.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.