Top 100 We Adapt Quotes
#1. There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.
Philip Sherrard
#2. 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
#4. The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition.
Josh Hanagarne
#5. Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.
Shilpa Menon
#6. The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert
#7. We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
Chris Womersley
#8. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
Paul Watson
#10. It'd be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It's really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we've already lost.
Tucker Elliot
#11. Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.
Anna Kay Akana
#12. We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
David Byrne
#14. I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.
Melanie Chisholm
#15. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.
Andrew Dost
#16. As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos
#17. Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran
#18. What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.
John Scalzi
#19. For years, a motto often repeated in the Canadian Armed Forces was "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." This was a fancy way of saying we should make do with whatever tools we were given." p. 119
Jody Mitic
#20. To be faithful, to be creative, we need to be able to change. To change! And why must I change? So that I can adapt to the situations in which I must proclaim the Gospel. To stay close to God, we need to know how to set out; we must not be afraid to set out.
Pope Francis
#21. The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.
Scott Howell
#22. we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.
Winston Graham
#23. We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.
Satya Nadella
#24. I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
Adelaide Clemens
#25. That plans, however well-intentioned, were ultimately irrelevant? That we had to learn to adapt, and the best-case scenario was finding a partner who was willing to adapt alongside us?
Chloe Neill
#26. My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.
Nolan Gould
#27. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
Russell Brand
#28. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.
Larry Fessenden
#29. We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own.
Abraham Ruiz
#30. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.
Brandon Sanderson
#31. Rob chuckles, I'm not some sparkly-skinned, jealous, child whose sensibilities are still stuck at the turn of the twentieth century. Eve, I can adapt. If we survived the sixties I promise you we can survive learning to share the most important person in either of our long lives.
Angela Louise McGurk
#32. The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.
Rebecca Solnit
#33. Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.
Rex Tillerson
#34. How can we understand what we've never experienced and adapt without making mistakes?
Melissa Landers
#35. The human community is evolving ... We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.
Doris Lessing
#36. It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.
Mary Midgley
#37. How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
Adrienne Rich
#38. There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.
Nicholas G. Carr
#39. We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.
Frank Knight
#40. ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent.
Michael Morell
#41. The world carried on before we arrived. We make our entrance, adapt to our surroundings and join the chase to nowhere. We depart without fulfilment. The world carries on.
Kamil Ali
#42. I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
E. O. Wilson
#43. For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
Michael Crichton
#44. Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki
#45. We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
Sumner Redstone
#46. When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
Bonnie Bassler
#47. We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.
Piero Ferrucci
#48. To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.
Shannon Leto
#49. Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein
#50. We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
Martin O'Malley
#51. We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.
Don Young
#52. My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.
Richard Myers
#53. Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying but the bird has already grown her wings.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.
George Lucas
#56. I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.
Victoria Osteen
#57. We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
Neil Harbisson
#58. We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
Irwin Rose
#59. 'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.'
Barbara Elsborg
#60. Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must understand Nature before we can adapt its way of working to our needs.
Viktor Schauberger
#61. My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#62. You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#63. Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.
Louise Penny
#64. But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
John Hutton
#65. Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather ... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
Dan Buettner
#66. You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes.
Holland Roden
#67. The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.
Liv Ullmann
#68. In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.
Fennel Hudson
#69. When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.
Adele Devine
#70. There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving ... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
Victoria Beckham
#71. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
Marcus Aurelius
#73. I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.
Myron Scholes
#74. We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
Hasso Plattner
#75. The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.
John Dewey
#77. At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
Leila Janah
#78. Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.
Thomas Keller
#79. We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.
Todd Wagner
#80. We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives.
Girdhar Joshi
#81. Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That's all we can do.
Gavin Extence
#82. We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
Elsie De Wolfe
#83. When the world changes, you have to adapt and change with it. It's not just death and taxes that we can always count on in life ... add 'change' to that mix. No matter what, tomorrow will always be a little bit different than today ...
Christopher Jones
#84. My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my conscious's matrix is without any doubt has adapted to other's consciousness and that is how we all adapt to survival.
Ahmed Aziz Ahmed
#85. Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
Robert Kennedy
#86. Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we
don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.
Cary Fowler
#87. In order to adapt to a changing world, we must help, or at the very least not hinder, global transformation and the concomitant socioeconomic changes: urbanization, higher educational achievement, changes in employment structures.
Anonymous
#88. We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan
#89. It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.
Phil Elvrum
#90. Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.
Robert Haven Schauffler
#91. Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
Douglas Rushkoff
#92. I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.
Nas
#93. The emergence of new conflicts mean, that we will need to be more creative, in the use of our diplomatic tools. The demands for peace-keeping forces is likely to grow, and we need to increasingly adapt our forces to that challenge.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#94. We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day
#95. The world doesn't change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can't control fate, but I'm sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.
Caroline George
#96. I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
Vinton Cerf
#97. Yet the Vedas do not merely ask us to accept such conclusions. They even tell us that it is better to doubt them until we ourselves actually find them to be true. Rather the Vedas present their teachings as models of lines of examination for us to adapt into the circumstances of our own lives.
Jagadish Chandra Chatterji
#98. We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.
Robert Reischauer
#99. Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy ... The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.
Connie Hedegaard
#100. If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.
John Wooden
