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Adaptive Quotes (page 2)

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate. Kazuo Ishiguro
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength."
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live. Suzanne Collins
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. John Galsworthy
Bruce Lee quote: "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and..."
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee quote: "Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only..."
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. Bruce Lee
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along. Stephen Jay Gould
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them. Michael Pollan
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Sigmund Freud quote: "Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy..."
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Sigmund Freud
He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls of his viscera. Haruki Murakami
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt..."
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. Kurt Vonnegut
Lao Tzu quote: "Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for..."
Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness. Lao Tzu
William Shakespeare quote: "All the World's a Stage",my adaptation; "All the World's a..."
All the World's a Stage",my adaptation; "All the World's a Stage; but that doesn't mean that you have to preform. William Shakespeare
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. Jeffrey Eugenides

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