Quotes About Adaptation

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

Life is not what you expected it to be.

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Change is the essence of life.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.