Quotes About Adaptation

Our only security is our ability to change.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

We can't live in a fantasy. Reality may be hard, but it's all we have.

Remember all frustration is based on unmet expectations. If we did not expect anything we would not be frustrated.

Allie wondered why New Yorkers seemed to think that leaning on a horn might help clear a traffic jam. Many of them thrived on noise, she supposed. Maybe some people adapted to noise and then craved it.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?

Perhaps all severe disabilities lead to a decrease in space and an increase in time.

Le temps mauvais passe quand on mange et s'amuse—Bad times pass when one eats and is merry. On ne fait pas comme on veut, mais comme on peut—One doesn't do what one wants, but what one can. La moitié du monde se moque de l'autre moitié—Half the world laughs at the other half.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.

Dünya her vakit parçalan?p durur. O yüzden, rahatla.

We've all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks. We've learnt a lot and we've had to figure out what's important, what matters – what really matters. It's been quite a time.

Then the day came when we stopped playing. We'd gone a couple of months without our usual games, but a few days into the school holidays I got my dolls out and tried to start up again. And it had all gone. The magic didn't work any more. I could barely even remember how we'd done it, but I tried to recapture the mood, the storylines, the way the dolls had moved and thought and spoken. But now it was like reading a meaningless book.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.