Quotes About Adaptation

Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to discover problems that could not be foreseen any other way, and to make midcourse adjustments

they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.

things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all. I

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

Tyson replied, "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

Tracy knew prisoners often said the most difficult thing to get used to wasn't being locked behind bars or doors, but learning to deal with the constant noise, the lack of any peace or privacy.

Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.

I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

By Crom, though I've spend considerable time among you civilized peoples, your ways are still beyond my comprehension

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

As the increasing number of Americans attempting to do business in China are discovering, the Chinese may move, but not in direct response to demands or on someone else's timetable. In the twenty-first century, China will be a formidable and staunchly independent force.

It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you. —The Aghori Vimalananda

Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.

To put it succinctly, in fashioning a Judaism that allowed Jews to survive centuries of subjugation, the rabbis also fashioned a Judaism that allowed Jews to thrive in the modern period.

All the rules had to be invented from the beginning. No one knew what the rules were, but gradually figured them out. The basics were: We've got to take a line. We've got to stay up off the floor. We have to have enough light to see. And we have to save enough air to get out.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.

Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.