Quotes About Adaptation

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.