Quotes about Adaptation

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.

I didn't feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

The rising levels of production and content are prompting producers to take up unusual subjects.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.