Quotes about Adaptation
New roads; new ruts.
— GK Chesterton
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
— Anonymous
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.
— Kamala Harris
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
— JM Coetzee
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
— George Bernard Shaw
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
— Brian Tracy
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
— Charlie Munger
It's the impeded stream that sings.
— Wendell Berry
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.
— Charles Dickens