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Source: Command Of The Air

“Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.”

Action Law Opinion Connections Arise Branches Closest Adaptation Reciprocal Heredity Recapitulation

Book:the riddle of the universe

Source: the riddle of the universe

“A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.”

Doe Imagination Nice Conditions Please Agree Hypothesis Adaptation

Author:Joseph Black

“I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.”

Film Bread Italian Adaptation

Author:Norman Jewison

“In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.”

Important Moving Programming Adaptation Software Engineering Optimization

Author:Larry Constantine

“A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.”

Age Environment One Thing Survival Defeat Adaptation Dinosaurs Cockroaches

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“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.”

Ifs Children Able Suffering Poor Responsible Our Children Climate Climate Change Grandchildren Adaptation Curb Children And Grandchildren

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”

World Believe Self Greater Growing Degrees Eternal Areas Immortal Hinduism Adaptation

Book:Religion and Dharma

Source: Religion and Dharma

“After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.”

Fall Creative Rain Adaptation Involvement Screenplays Sony

Author:Barry Eisler

“God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.”

Ifs Writing Character Helping Use Voice My Friends Idiot Adaptation Adapting God Help Sloppy Narration Voice Over Film Adaptations

Author:Robert McKee

“Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.”

Individual Organisms Adaptation

Book:The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

Source: The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

“Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.”

Law Universe Force Natural Existence Contrary Adaptation Non Existence

Author:Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

“True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.”

Law Joy Ignorance Recognition Opposition Bondage Adaptation True Freedom

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.”

States Whole Desire Imagination Awareness Missing Species Bounds Hunger Patterns Pursuit Realization Characteristics Wholeness Adaptation Transient Ecstatic Incompleteness

Book:Solitude a Return to the Self

Source: Solitude a Return to the Self

“If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.”

Ifs Men Happens Values Existence Responsibility Greater Possibility Civilization Limits Regard Objectives Transformed Sole Technological Adaptation Inevitability

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.”

“....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.”

Causes Moral Lifestyle Prime Decline Adaptation Extravagant Shellfish

Author:Pliny the Elder

“I see only adaptations - not revolutions.”

Revolution Adaptation

Author:Gordon Getty

“Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.”

Life Pay Circumstances Mathematics Math Circles Mathematical Adaptation Defective

Book:Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

Source: Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

“The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.”

Way States Dream Doors Yoga Opening Realms Reaching Subtle Efficient Stable Adaptation Transcendence

Book:One Taste

Source: One Taste

“Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.”

Knows Way Inspirational Mind Has Beens Remember Differences Crosses Raises Raised Adaptation Changing Your Mind Doorstep

Author:Maya Angelou

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.”

Humans May Different War Purpose Time Justice Party Effects Claims Gods Will Civil War Contests Adaptation Divine Will

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.”

Long Has Beens Made Two Stories Film Novel Ideals Originals Short Story Adaptation Eighteen Screenplays Seventeen Film Adaptations

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.”

Ideas Problem Hands Motivational Used Regard Originals Adaptation

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.”

Needs Firsts Said Soul Suffering Willing All Things Glad Gods Will Useless Classic Devoted Adaptation Machinery Evangelism Adjustment Attractiveness Evangelists

Book:The Mount of Purification

Source: The Mount of Purification

“Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.”

World Mean Process Figures Profound Thrive Adaptation Adapting Film Adaptations

Author:John Laroche

“Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.”

Ideas Depends Originals Adaptation Original Ideas

Author:Frank Darabont

“Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and the environment, understanding of the relationships among these concepts is crucial. This volume does a better job of explaining how to manage both money and nature to ensure humanity's long-term future than any other work I know of. Read and reflect.”

“The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.”

Persons Process West Continuing Adaptation Westerners

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.”

Fields Definite Adaptation

Book:The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

“All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”

Successful Adaptation

Author:Max McKeown

“You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.”

“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal”

People Mind Process Term Change Situation Roles Psychology Team Policy Transformation Psychological Internals Boss Transition Site Adaptation Consultants New Situations

Author:William Bridges

“When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].”

Giving Mind Shows Seems Found Situation Strange Evidence Conviction Dues Psychological Adaptation Inexplicable Quirks

Author:Norman Macbeth

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

Mean Games Diversity Survival Fewer Requirements Adaptation Peas Pandas

Author:Cary Fowler

“Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.”

“Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.”

Stories Style Events Shots Mere Narrative Short Story Toms Adaptation Spoil

Author:Karina Longworth

“Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.”

Causes Learning Benefits Draws Saint Harm Adaptation Nun Adaptability

Author:Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

“The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.”

“If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.”

Ifs Different Philosophy Government Turns Three Social Differences Economic Conditions Circumstances Locals Communist Regimes Socialist Adaptation Fascists Separating Tactical

Author:Richard Pipes

“If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.”

Ifs Exercise Activity Training Program Stress Stronger Faster Desirable Adaptation Physical Activity

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.”

Choices Difficult Cutting Particular Adaptation Screenwriters Difficult Choices

Author:David Benioff

“Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.”

Doe Perfect Preparation Excellent Adaptation

Author:Lauren Fleshman

“Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.”

Today Yesterday Adaptation

Book:Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

Source: Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

“I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, … upset agriculture,…and inundate costal cities…… Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve.”

“Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.”

War Purpose Fighting Politics Individual Process Concepts International Agreement Anarchy Norm Adaptation Frequency Dominance

Author:Steven Pinker

“I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.”

Thinking Men Firsts Facts Wanted Events Capacity Experience Sight Longing Satisfied Chains Ties Links Adaptation Chain Of Events

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.”

“God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it”

People Should May Teach Ministry Dishes Adaptation

Author:Catherine Booth

“Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.”

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