Quotes About Adaptation

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Both moderns and postmoderns must be willing to try old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

Plans fall apart and time moves on.

Things never stay the same. That's just the way life is. I doesn't mean it's all bad. Change can be good. Even exciting!

to know more. What about those who fail to control the weather? And what about those who can't?

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

Just because humans have become -advanced- enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evolutionary processes have ceased to operate.

Just because humans have become "advanced" enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evoutionary processes have ceased to operate.

After all, "the" human species is no more static than other species are. If our environment changes (or, more pertinent in the human case, as we transform our environment), we change with it.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Every time you build a golf course, it's not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

There's a time for all things.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.