Quotes About Adaptation

For centuries those people were hunters, and now hunting has been taken away from them, without anything taking its place. When you separate people from their past without giving them anything in its place, they live with their eyes on that past . . . They're not the ones to blame.

Adivasi societies are not fossilized societies.

We know from many examples all over the world and from many periods of history that it was perfectly feasible for people of different racial origins, brought together through migration, trade, conquest or persecution, to find themselves ultimately using the same language.

Ron Ashkenas

Always make sure there are seven things in your life at all times: laughter, family, adventure, good food, challenge, change, and the quest for knowledge.

He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept.

I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.

Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.

Agile is simple—it just isn't easy.

Keeping the design good as it changes is called refactoring.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

natural selection," not only changes in individual species

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

An exchange student from Afghanistan "finds himself in the midst of America's circus of self-invention" as he experiences Halloween for the first time. His hosts bauble, "It's the greatest of holidays when you can become anything you want.

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something—a belief, a value, a behavior—that they hold dear. People can stand only so much change at any one time.

Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.