Adaptation Quotes

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”

“The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.”

“For a long time I was a chameleon. I was a social chameleon. I was a character chameleon. I was a spiritual chameleon.”

“The only constant is change, and if you don't change you're dead.”

“He who has not the spirit of his age, has all the misery of it.”

“I regard it as unfortunate that the theory of natural selection was first developed as an explanation for evolutionary change. It is much more important as an explanation for the maintenance of adaptation.”

“The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.”

“Preservation is not about freezing a building in time, but about finding a way for it to live in the present.”

“The differential survival of the fittest may be a tautology, but the differential survival of the adapted is a profound truth.”

“When you have a story that's been told over and over and over again, you have to find a new way to tell it.”

“The major task of the child is to adapt to the adult world.”

“The beak of the finch is a classic tool for survival and reproduction.”

“A movie is not a book. If it were a book, it would be a book.”

“We must adapt to a new security environment.”

“We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves in order to exist in this new environment.”

“Pivoting isn't failure. It's smart adaptation in the face of new information.”

“A movie is not a book. A movie is a movie.”

“A movie is not a book. If it is a book, it is a bad movie.”

“The one thing that is constant is change.”

“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”