Adaptation Quotes
Dorothy Parker
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
4462 Emma Thompson
Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.
4526 Michael Bassey Johnson
The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.
2442 Bruce Lee
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.
3407 Jean M. Auel
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.
4462 Steven Pinker
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.
3969 Kat Lahr
We are always people that are in the making, constantly adapting to accommodate the roads we walk. As we learn, it changes us. As we go about our course, we grow, and prune everything around us; friends, beliefs, desires. Our past experiences plant the seeds needed for our future roads, with all its turns, speed, and treachery.
1878 Michael Crimmins
When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.
1961 James Hervey Johnson
Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.
4366 James P. Lewis
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
4308 H.G. Wells
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
1756 John Dryden
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
1549 Rémy De Gourmont
To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.
4878 Raheel Farooq
Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.
4250 Rossana Condoleo
Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version?
A: No official release of myself will ever follow!
Q: Then, you are not!
A: I
2630 Wayne Gerard Trotman
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
4964 Steven Pinker
The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
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