Quotes about Adaptation

Change in all things is sweet.

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

You can live here as you expect to live there.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change