Quotes about Adaptation

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.