Adaptation quotes - page 24
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
Jacques Barzun
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
Maurice Strong
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
David Richo
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.
Helen McCrory
A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.
Joel Beeke
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
Wendie Malick
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
Rene Dubos
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.
Tom Selleck
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.
Wilma Scott Heide
