Quotes About Adaptation

Many bees evolved longer and longer tongues to make it easier for them to reach nectar hidden within flowers; some now have tongues longer than their bodies.fn1

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

When a training scenario does not go the way you wanted it to, then do it again, but do not ever think you are dead in an exercise.

Stress acclimatization is about measuring precise doses of stress followed by waves of recovery and then repeating these cycles very specifically. There must be time for adaptation to take place and there must be enough training, repeated over time, to help it stick as well as reinforcing the conditioning.

Training At The Speed Of Life

Ducks are masterfully designed, down to the smallest detail, for both aquatic and terrestrial life.

Once ducklings reach maturity, they sometimes fairly abruptly stop tracking the person they have imprinted on and integrate with other ducks.

It is not necessary to have swimming water for ducklings, even though they thoroughly enjoy going for a paddle within days of hatching.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

One of the problems with travelling in the TARDIS, no matter what state of repair it might ultimately be in, is that you can leave a place of sweltering heat to find yourself in bitter cold, and you always seem to have put on the wrong clothes for it.

desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según

No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

he was inadequately trained for the cut and thrust savagery of the average American teen.

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.