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Quotes About Adaptation

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
~ Joshua Lederberg
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
~ Vince Lombardi
Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.
~ Jack Kornfield
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
~ Bruce Lee
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
~ Epictetus
My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
~ Yao Ming
If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.
~ Laozi
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
~ Matthew Arnold
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.
~ Louise Hay
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
~ Karl Radek
Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.
~ Mark Rippetoe
Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.
~ Asa Baber
Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They're unique. They know they were built for the water.
~ Sidney Knight, Alex
Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.
~ Debasish Mridha
Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.
~ Welsh Proverb
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
~ Hans Selye
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
~ Ellen Langer
Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.
~ Eamonn Coghlan
Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.
~ Dean Ornish
Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.
~ Bruce H. Lipton