Quotes About Adaptation

I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

Print is not dead.

We don't know where print is going.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.

Prior to being in 'Carousel,' I had only seen the movie. So, when I read the script, I felt like it was a lot deeper than the movie portrayed it to be.

'Bigg Boss' was the first time I was exposed to a situation where I had to only speak in Hindi. Prior to that, I was learning but never practising.