Quotes About Adaptation

here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

suggest, animals have a way of adapting, if not evolving, under different environmental circumstances.

Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.

In terms of the outdoors, I and the others like me weren't badly cheated as such cheatings go nowadays, but we were cheated nevertheless. We learned quite a lot, but not enough. Instead of learning to move into country, as I think underneath we wanted, we learned mostly how to move onto it in the old crass Anglo-Saxon way, in search of edible or sometimes just mortal quarry.

It takes time for the habit of people to wear off of you

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

Perpetual novelty is the hallmark of 'cas'.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let's take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Better is to bow than break.

la sabiduría es la capacidad de distinguir ambas cosas: aceptar lo que viene dado y tratar de cambiar lo que esté en nuestra mano.

The story for Hispanics and Asians is complicated by the fact that many are immigrants or the children of immigrants, meaning that we have to take into account how the process of adaptation and assimilation (or possible lack thereof) affects their patterns of socioeconomic achievement and health over time and across generations.

Acknowledge your mistakes, correct them, and go on, but take the risk of enjoying what you've got, and be brave enough to change what doesn't work.