Quotes about Adaptation
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
- Lou Holtz
Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.
- Henry Cloud
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
- Carl Sagan
By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.
- Paulo Coelho
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
- George Bernard Shaw
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
- Henry Ford
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver
- St. Thomas Aquinas