Quotes About Adaptation

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it's still kind of fresh.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

Time will perfect matter.