Quotes About Adaptation

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Whoever writes in a foreign language must like a lover accommodate his mode of thinking to it. -- Whoever writes in his native language has the authority of a husband in his own house, if he is in command of it.

It isn't the drug that causes the harmful behavior—it's the environment. An isolated rat will almost always become a junkie. A rat with a good life almost never will, no matter how many drugs you make available to him. As Bruce put it: he was realizing that addiction isn't a disease. Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.

Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.

We are all born with a genetic inheritance—but your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off, by what happens to you.

Take care what technologies you use, because your consciousness will, over time, come to be shaped like those technologies.

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

The vitally important corollary is that evolution shaped us not only to feel bad in isolation, but to feel insecure." It's a beautiful theory.

I'm not ready for this, I thought. Then somewhere, from the back of my mind, I remembered something the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset said: "We cannot put off living until we are ready…. Life is fired at us point-blank.

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable - until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place.

it has to begin with a bit of introspection, with a bit of understanding ourselves." Yes, he says, the environment changed: "You [the average tech user] didn't make the iPhone. It's not your fault. I never said it's your fault. I'm saying it's your responsibility. This stuff isn't going away. In some form or other, it's here to stay. What choice do we have? We have to adapt. That's our only option.

Nada tiene que quedarse como está. Si un dogma no funciona, por muy fuerte e inamovible que parezca, siempre puede uno desecharlo y plantear algo distinto.

We could have looked instead at what does work: changing the environment in specific ways.

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

We have been animals that move for a lot longer than we have been animals that talk and convey concepts,

As soon as plants began to be eaten by animals for the first time - way back in prehistory, before the first human took his first steps - the plants evolved chemicals to protect themselves from being devoured and destroyed. But these chemicals could, it soon turned out, produce strange effects. In some cases, instead of poisoning the plant's predators, they - quite by accident- altered their consciousness. This is when the pleasure of getting wasted enters the history.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.