Change And Adaptation Quotes

#1. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Miles Anthony Smith

#2. Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Carl Rogers

#3. During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Peter Drucker

#4. Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

Jonathan Haidt

#5. In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Cary Fowler

#6. There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Wendell Berry

#7. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

Remy De Gourmont

#9. Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Jason Jennings

#10. There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardships - challenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldn't stop. He had to endure. The path had not changed. It was he who had changed.

Matt K. Turner

#11. As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

Ernst Mayr

#12. Do you want to change?"
"It's the only evidence of life.

Evelyn Waugh

#13. As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.

Ivan Krastev

#14. By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

James P. Lewis

#16. We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

John Dryden

#17. Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.

Amit Ray

#18. If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Jim Yong Kim

#19. Things change, constantly, as they should. And with change comes the need for adaptation, for fresh thinking, and, sometimes, for even a total reboot - of your project, your department, your division, or your company as a whole.

Ed Catmull

#20. Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Nicholas Stern

#21. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

#22. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.

Alvin Conway

#23. Humans have a tendency to complain whenever the old must give way to the new. But change is the natural way of the universe, and we must learn to embrace it rather than fear it. The very process of transformation and adaptation strengthens the species.

Frank Herbert

#24. Only those who are able to adapt to changing scenarios will continue to survive and prosper. Success is directly proportional to the degree of positive adaptation to change.

Vishwas Chavan

#25. Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Raheel Farooq

#26. Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

Nicholas Stern

#27. Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version?
A: No official release of myself will ever follow!
Q: Then, you are not!
A: I

Rossana Condoleo

#28. At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

#29. Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#30. Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Jean M. Auel

#31. Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

Nicholas Stern

#33. When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

Michael Crimmins

#34. Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

Bell Hooks

#35. Culture is always on the move.

Colin Woodard