Adaptation quotes - page 11
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
Amanda Palmer
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.
Raymond Charles Barker
Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.
How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.
Jay L. Garfield
The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.
Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.
Letitia Baldrige
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
Robert Rauschenberg
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
Wallace Shawn
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
Lester Thurow
