Quotes About Adaptation

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

La cosa importante per il governo non è fare ciò che gli individui fanno già, e farlo un po' meglio o un po' peggio, ma fare ciò che presentemente non si fa del tutto.

Once it is common, cooperation is evolutionarily stable. The problem is how it becomes common in the first place, because defection is also stable.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

What I didn't realize was this: It's never possible to be prepared when the future takes over from the past.

I suppose that's how you get old. You find yourself not doing a whole lot of things you once did without thought.

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood.

There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.

Since I had left, my mother said, the water bill had gone down by 80 percent.

She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to relinquish and attach at the same time.

Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I think the best way to deal with grief is to just keep going. To keep living your life, even though it's different now.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Lizbet is so busy that hours and even days go by when she forgets to be on the lookout for Shelly Carpenter.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She hangs it on

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

The old ideas don't satisfy the new generation any longer, while the old generations are unable to accept and assimilate the new ideas.

To think about what is new, we cannot use old concepts— particularly not concepts that have been emptied of their meaning and their usefulness by the very assaults that brought about this break in human history. We cannot use concepts from Before, inherited from a world that exists no longer, to explore the After.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.