Quotes About Adaptation

The most important measure of brainpower is the ability to adapt to change.

There is no one veracious aisle to innovation.

l'oubli dont je commençais à sentir la force et qui est un si puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité parce qu'il détruit peu à peu le passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle.

People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.

The fox changes his skin, but keeps the rogue.

The water from the river becomes salty when it reaches the ocean.

The wolf changes his teeth but not his disposition.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Change is constant. When we strive to become a better person than who we were yesterday, that change becomes sweetest.

Nothing is permanent, change is constant. When we learn to ride these waves of changes everyday gracefully, we learn to stay in and enjoy the present moment.

In The Descent of Man he gave some powerful pages to illustrate its proper, wide sense. He pointed out how, in numberless animal societies, the struggle between separate individuals for the means of existence disappears, how struggle is replaced by co-operation, and how that substitution results in the development of intellectual and moral faculties which secure to the species the best conditions for survival.

Remember that darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light. And just like that, you'll find yourself everywhere instantly.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

La edad de una persona puede determinarse por el grado de dolor que experimenta cuando entra en contacto con una idea nueva

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.