Quotes About Adaptation

On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs [You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs].

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too].

Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention].

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

A dillar, a dollar,A ten o'clock scholar,What makes you come so soon?You used to come at ten o'clock,And now you come at noon.

Live with wolves, howl like a wolf.

The most stylish and successful rooms are not those who slavishly follow a theme, but those who evolve gradually.

improvisamos un techo para protegernos de los murciélagos que andan por ahí hablando con voz de gente

Les organismes sont continuellement en train de changer, passant par une série "d'états": chacun de ces derniers correspond une configuration dans laquelle les diverses composantes de l'organisme présentent un niveau d'activité donnée.

You don't want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course.

ten centuries ago people would have snorted just like that at the idea of a black as Head on this planet. Such narrow stupidity seems fantastic to us now. Our own prejudices will seem just as comical to our great-great-grandchildren.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

The key to success is often the ability to adapt.

Thanks to global warming it is beginning to seem likely that the Northwest Passage will open for longer and longer periods each year, until, perhaps by the end of this century, ice will have vanished from the world altogether and the ancient dream of a Northwest Passage will have been, unexpectedly and inadvertently, realized.

Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

It isn't falling in that causes you to drown, it's staying in.

Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.

Cuarto: siempre que te sientas inseguro acerca de lo que puede depararte el futuro, limítate simplemente a recordar que en los últimos seis o doce meses has estado igualmente inseguro acerca de los acontecimientos que habrían de producirse; y que cuando, finalmente, éstos se produjeron, te las arreglaste para dominarlos de un modo u otro, gracias a las energías

Si hay algo que pueda hacer ahora con respecto a mi futuro, lo haré. Fuera de eso, me limitaré a dejarle que siga su curso y me dedicaré a disfrutar del momento presente, porque la experiencia me ha enseñado que sólo puedo hacer frente a las cosas cuando éstas se presentan, no antes de que ocurran, y que el presente me proporciona siempre los recursos y la energía necesarios para afrontarlas».

Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever-moving stream of life.

These people don't bring delinquency with them; they become delinquent when they're faced with certain situations here.