Quotes About Adaptation

It is amazing how human beings struggle just to do what every worm, insect, bird, and animal does quite effortlessly.

the ability to respond is the basis of life.

Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival.

No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Since most New Yorkers had never heard of Lansing, I would name Detroit. Gradually, I began to be called "Detroit Red"—and it stuck.

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes .

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

One idea alone is a tactic, but if it can be executed a number of different ways, it becomes a great strategy.

Keep in mind that the landscape is always changing; you must always examine what's working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.

Cependant les années s'avançaient. Il fallait commencer à imiter les autres, leur ressembler.

By the time I wrote this book I had begun to finally figure out that: a) there was a direct relationship between my behavior and those attempts on my life: b) maybe my previous strategy of becoming better at violence instead of not pissing off people needed to be reviewed: c) that there were knowable 'rules' in different environments: d) you could learn them so as not to run afoul with point A.

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

What had killed them became the air that they breathed. Perhaps this ability that life has to turn things to its advantage doesn't mean much to you. But let me tell you that, in my world, it has meant a lot.

Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty glass on the kitchen counter, an open toothpaste tube, unmade beds, their sheets stained with urine; he leaves grandfather clocks, cigarette burns in the ashtrays, comics that have been scrawled on and books borrowed from the school library; he leaves clothes in the wardrobes and food in the fridge.

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

No te aficiones más que a lo que te acontezca y a lo que forme la trama de la vida. ¿Pues qué otra cosa podrá serte más oportuna?

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you—and just as vital to nature.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. 21.