Quotes About Adaptation

As the Yankee Doodle Dandies climbed into the altiplano (highlands), they sang the popular songs of the day, one of which, "Green Grow the Lilacs Oh," became their signature tune, and forever after they would be known as "greengos.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

It seems like a good way to grow up," I told her. "It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong— Actually, no. That's a word my husband would use. I won't say wrong anymore, I'll say differently than planned. That's what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.

True learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Arthur Gremlin was doing a lot of smiling these days. He had seemed pretty tense when he first joined the firm, but the more time he spent with me, and the more he saw me in action, the more he relaxed. Finally after watching me spend three entire days trying to get a carton of milk open, he wiped the milk off his face and relaxed completely for the first time. It's like something that had been nagging at him finally went away.

he executed a 360-degree turn that made him no friends,

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.

Nearly a century ago a French sociologist wrote that every institution's unstated first goal is to survive and grow, not to undertake the mission it has nominally staked out for itself.