Adaptation quotes - page 40

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
 Peter Singer
The key to success is often the ability to adapt
 Anthony Brandt
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
 John Cage
If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.
You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
 Eric Thomas
We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.
 Jeremy Rifkin
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
 Declan Donnellan
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.
 Nancy Pelosi
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you\'ll make one.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.
We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
 Rosa Parks
The absurd man is he who never changes.
 Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
 Martin Zwilling
Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
 J. P. Morgan
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
 Christopher Alexander
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.