Quotes About Adaptation

The hardest part about change is not making the same choices you made the day before.

To Experience Change, Observe a New Outcome with a New Mind

This process, if we do it right, actually repatterns our brains and changes our biology; the new experience will reorganize the old programming, and in so doing, it will remove the neurological evidence of that past experience.

Without learning and experiencing, we never upgrade our neural architecture.

ha incorporado a nuestro «yo» biológico y ya se ha convertido en nuestra segunda piel.

While the process of genetic evolution can take thousands of years, a gene can successfully alter its expression through a behavior change or a novel experience within minutes, and then it may be passed on to the next generation

If emotions are the end product of experiences, then by embracing the same emotion every day, the body is being fooled into believing that your external world is staying the same. And if your body is being conditioned to reexperience the same circumstances in your environment, you can never evolve and change. As long as you live by this emotion daily, you can only think in the past.

One man wrote War and Peace. Thirty-five screenwriters wrote The Flintstones.

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.

Ésta es mi filosofía del entrenamiento: un deportista debería hacer, en el momento adecuado, la mínima cantidad de entrenamiento específico que proporciona una mejora continua.

Continuing to train with high intensity results in roughly half as much decline as training with long, slow distance only.

So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.

Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.

It was hard to venture back near the place you'd been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you'd been there.

Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.

Any pattern repeated over and over is bound to turn into wallpaper eventually, whether it's flowers or corpses.

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

Vapt vupt era uma das expressões preferidas de Mary Poppins, e Harper, desde que era pequena, gostava sempre que possível de substituir os palavrões por expressões típicas de Julie Andrews. Isso lhe proporcionava uma sensação firme de controle e ao mesmo tempo a fazia lembrar de ser a melhor pessoa que pudesse.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

If you drive to the end of Little Harbor Road, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, it will take you to the ocean, but you won't find the sandy lane to Camp Wyndham. I made the place up. Many other features of the area, however, are much as I presented them: South Street Cemetery, South Mill Pond, the Piscataqua Bridge. Here and there I have changed features to suit the needs of the story.

It was hard to venture back near the place you had been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you had been there.

Angie has never had sticking power. She dropped out of high school; she walked out of the GED exam. Her longest relationship, prior to falling for Andy, was seven months. But then they'd met (no epic tale there—the game was on at a hometown bar), and something in her character was spontaneously altered.

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.