Quotes About Adaptation

That's life! Sometimes you're on the horse's back, and sometimes it's the horse that's on your back.

On se calme comme on peut.

Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

There are people who say we should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room.

He had spent his first day in Hue as scared as he had ever been. The fear had started when they were shot at on the chopper coming in, and had then just stayed at full throttle. He realized he had adapted to it. It surprised him. Fear, because it was everywhere and everyone felt it, receded in importance. It was still there, but when you realized there was nothing you could do about it, it ceased to matter. It just became your new reality.

The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.

Instead of being assembled by genes, the worm was assembled by "memes," a word coined by British scientist and polemicist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Memes are original ideas. Dawkins argued that they play the same role in cultural evolution as genes play in biology, getting passed along from person to person, surviving and adapting as they move.

increasingly, they did not really know each other. The constant toll of death and injury, in addition to the policy of rotating marines out promptly when their thirteen months up, meant that squads were always changing. There was no such thing as unit cohesion.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT

Nothing characterizes successful organizations more than their willingness to abandon what made them successful.

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That's the essence of contextualization.

When Jack was returning to America from his years in Thailand, he sought out an elderly Western monk and asked him if he had any advice about being back in the West. "Only one thing," said the monk. "When you're running to catch the subway and you see it leaving without you, don't panic, just remember, 'There's always another train.

I know that what's done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.

human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo.

Depend on it, there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way.

Everything has changed but nothing has changed.

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they.

A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.

We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious—to machines.

he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though