Quotes About Adaptation

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what America means.

Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens around the world. (37)

To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.

When the prey of the sabre-toothed cat died out, so did the cat.

Cuando vives a dos el mundo se adapta a ese ruido, a ese ritmo, a esos perfiles, y la súbita ausencia del otro desencadena un cataclismo en el paisaje.

Ambos teníamos pareja en nuestros respectivos países y en cualquier caso la historia había sido demasiado hermosa como para fastidiarla con la cotidianeidad. O con dudas de identidad. O con preguntas. Otra de las cosas que una aprende con la edad es a tomar las cosas como vienen. E incluso a dar las gracias.

la realidad acaba por adaptarse a nuestros sueños... y a veces también a nuestras pesadillas.

Los puertorriqueños estaban acostumbrados a transitar de isla en isla y de continente en continente como aves cuya condición natural era tránsito.

We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.

The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion.

An explosive outburst—like other forms of maladaptive behavior—occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

Challenging behavior occurs when the demands being placed upon a child outstrip the skills he has to respond adaptively to those demands.

QUESTION: Isn't it the parents' job to make their child behave at school? ANSWER: Helping a child deal more adaptively with frustration is everyone's job. The parents aren't there when the child has challenging episodes at school.

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them.

EX UMBRA IN SOLEM 'From shade to sunlight

Mandy Mitchell's up to her elbows in someone else's shit." Of all the other housekeepers to be assigned to the same floor, she had to get Tori. "As you know, I go by Amanda Lockhart now." "Ah, you'll

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

The point is, we're all changing all the time. You once found it hard to tie a shoelace and now you don't even have to look. The change is so subtle; you think that whatever you feel like right now is how you always felt. Our brain can trick us into thinking life stands still. In the end this causes the human race the most heartache. Blinkered

Our brain has been shaped by evolutionary pressure over time to provide our bodies with ever more efficient ways of surviving and reproducing. It is designed to process all information for the purpose of living on, it doesn't care about happiness – it has things to do, places to go.

Anything you can do, I can do meta