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Quotes About Adaptation

Change is no threat to culture.
~ Wade Davis
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
~ Linus Torvalds
Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.
~ Nick Harkaway
Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.
~ Suzan DelBene
The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
~ Magnus Larsson
Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.
~ Gareth Southgate
As the threat to harm the United States and U.S. interests evolves, we must adapt and confront these challenges, relying heavily on the strength of our federal, state, local, and international partnerships.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.
~ Barry Gardiner
When the physical threat of coronavirus subsides, as it surely will, we must address the impact to our mental health.
~ Luciana Berger
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
~ Art Spiegelman
Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.
~ Jack Schlossberg
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
~ George C. Williams
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
~ Peter Diamandis
I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
~ Robert Smith
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
~ Gunter Grass
Change is not threatening.
~ Steve Wynn
When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
~ Robert Crumb
It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.
~ Oscar
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
~ Janet Napolitano
There's no substitute for taking a clear-eyed look at the threats we'll face and asking how our force will adapt to meet those threats.
~ Joseph Dunford
We must build toward the future so that we are prepared to deal with the threats we will face at home and abroad and understand how those threats may be connected.
~ Christopher A. Wray
People seek change not only when threats and opportunities appear, but when we get tired of the ways things are.
~ Bettany Hughes
The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.
~ Anand Mahindra