Quotes about Adaptation

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.