Adaptation Quotes

“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to the Screen is because these are the very books that I was cyber-bullied on. When confronted by bullies, you don't shy away, but you Fight Back. Many people have not read the books, but believe fake news and damaging slanders against them and me as a person because it was a marketing strategy used to sell my books' rival books. By bringing these very books to the screen, people can see how different my books are to theirs. Also, most of all, it is pretty darn fun and fierce for me, as a female Asian writer, director, and producer to bring these fan favorite books to screen.”
― Kailin Gow, Loving Summer

“That is a trick of human nature. We get used to things.”
― R. J. Palacio

“One reason television is such a perilous medium is that even infants less than two years old imitate what they see on the screen, yet what appears there is determined by what happens to appeal or to sell rather than by what behavior helped individuals in a particular past environment to survive or prosper.”
― Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

“And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“I had begun to realise how much I'd adapted to Keith's needs and preferences. Just small stuff: what time we went to bed, which side I slept on, not cooking cauliflower. Allowances and adaptions anyone in a long-term relationship has to make, accumulating over time. But I wasn't in a relationship anymore. I wanted to know what of myself needed to be reclaimed.”
― Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

“Human vice is proof that biological adaption is, speaking literally, a thing of the past. Our minds are adapted to the small foraging bands in which our family spent ninety-nine percent of its existence, not the topsy-turvy contingencies we have created since the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
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People do not divine what is adaptive for them or their genes; their genes give them thoughts and feelings that were adaptive in the environment in which the genes were selected.”
― Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

“When we train, our performance improves as we adapt to stress. Over time, however, if the stresses are too great or we don't incorporate sufficient recovery time, gains begin to diminish. To grow and adapt, we require stress, but equally, we need periods of rest and recovery. This is a delicate balance to strike: if we rest too frequently or for too long, we will become soft and move backward. We need stress to create adaptation.”
― Chris Duffin, The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention

“Mass movements are a function of adaptation. Its pulse is change. A movement without mass is a cult. And it is in cults that stupid tyrants hold sway.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Change brings faster results than chance.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The weather was bitter and stormy, people's looks seemed brutal, the cars were ruthlessly driven, the buildings looked unfriendly. Her fire started to freeze by the coldness of being unwelcome and undesired on a foreign wicked land.

Indeed, feelings involve one in their worlds, they make one forget one's existence; they distract one from being utterly connected with the surroundings. That was what happened, there was danger; Norina's survival was threatened. In a logical moment that could penetrate the whirlwind she had inside, she got struck by reality, her real situation; she had no money, no food, no accommodation, and no shelter.

She suddenly stopped walking and shut her eyes for a whole minute as if she was installing a blank page and a brand new sense detector that could suit the new city. It wasn't easy and nothing was easy, especially controlling your own inner world. However, when it is a must, considering the level of difficulty would be trivial.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, Norina Luciano

“I have got convictions, until i’ve got others.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Overall, then, we will view cas [complex adaptive systems] as systems composed of interacting agents described in terms of rules. These agents adapt by changing their rules as experience accumulates. In cas, a major part of the environment of any given adaptive agent consists of other adaptive agents, so that a portion of any agent's efforts at adaptation is spent adapting to other adaptive agents. This one feature is a major source of the complex temporal patterns that cas generate. To understand cas we must understand these ever-changing patterns.”
― John H. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

“When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. This is the case whether the agent drops from the sky in a fiery streak or drives to work in a Honda.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“Life persists if it can respond and adapt to its environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Aucun fait dit normal, parce que rendu tel, ne peut usurper le prestige de la norme dont il est l'expression, à partir du moment où les conditions dans lesquelles il a été référé à la norme ne sont plus données. Il n'y a pas de fait normal ou pathologique en soi. L'anomalie ou la mutation ne sont pas en elles-mêmes pathologiques. Elles expriment d'autres normes de vie possibles. Si ces normes sont inférieures, quant à la stabilité, à la fécondité, à la variabilité de la vie, aux normes spécifiques antérieures, elles seront dites pathologiques. Si ces normes se révèlent, éventuellement, dans le même milieu équivalentes, ou dans un autre milieu supérieures, elles seront dites normales. Leur normalité leur viendra de leur normativité. Le pathologique, ce n'est pas l'absence de norme biologique, c'est une autre norme mais comparativement repoussée par la vie.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Life happens how it happens, and you either move with the maelstrom or die wallowing about the change in the winds.”
― Cora Carmack, Rage

“The environment around us is constantly changing, including innovations, friends, employment and moving to a different location; those who accept and excel at adaptation have smoother transitions, while others struggle.”
― R.J. Intindola

“Senior citizens naturally lament the passage of a former way of life whenever a county undergoes massive infrastructure changes; all acts of change are disconcerting. It is easy to confuse feelings of nostalgia for an incorrect belief that our youth was the Golden Age of Civilization and now decadence and debauchery mars the county that we cherish. A democratic nation is always a roughhouse of bawdy conduct. Each thronging generation of Americans fought tooth and claw over politics and social engineering and America brims with its congeries of impatient groups. Every generation includes speculators wanting to obtain quick results and instant wealth. Every age group loudly squabbles over issues of local, national, or international import. Each passing generation of American citizens skeptically questions the art and music of the new generation and dubiously interprets change as severing America from its root structure when in truth America’s fundamental tenet is its mutability, the ability to transform its governmental mechanisms, quickly adapt to transformations in science, medicine, industry, and technology.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“To live is to exist within the boundaries of what is permissible and what is not. Adaptation to this is called life.”
― Elmar Hussein

“Nature isn't still. Nature is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, just like the rest of us. It's winds and floods and rain and quakes. A huge part of human history is about us just trying to survive the speed of nature.”
― Warren Ellis, Injection, Vol. 2

“I think," he mumbled eventually, "I think that in order to solve the problem it is important to define it and to have some sense of what has caused it." Another empty phrase, thought Jean-Yves furiously; not only empty, but, as it happened, untrue. The causes were clearly part of general shifts in society that were beyond their powers to change. They had to adapt to this new business climate, that was all. And how could they adapt to it? This moron clearly hadn't the faintest idea.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“The four stages of mental illness: 1. Awareness. 2. Denial 3. Acceptance. 4. Adaptation.”
― Steven Magee

“Long term exposure to abnormally high levels of lightning may trigger genetic adaptation processes in the human.”
― Steven Magee

“No amount of acclimatization to very high altitude will prevent long term health problems and genetic adaptation processes from developing in the sea level adapted human.”
― Steven Magee

“Genetic adaptation processes may be triggered in sea level adapted humans that spend prolonged time at high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee

“Au fond, il peut y avoir pour un infirme une activité possible et un rôle social honorable. Mais la limitation forcée d'un être humain à une condition unique et invariable est jugée péjorativement, par référence à l'idéal normal humain qui est l'adaptation possible et voulue à toutes les conditions imaginables. C'est l'abus possible de la santé qui est au fond de la valeur accordée à la santé, comme, selon Valéry, c'est l'abus du pouvoir qui est au fond de l'amour du pouvoir. L'homme normal c'est l'homme normatif, l'être capable d'instituer de nouvelles normes, même organiques. Une norme unique de vie est ressentie privativement et non positivement.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“L'état pathologique ou anormal n'est pas fait de l'absence de toute norme. La maladie est encore une norme de vie, mais c'est une norme inférieure en ce sens qu'elle ne tolère aucun écart des conditions dans lesquelles elle vaut, incapable qu'elle est de se changer en une autre norme.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel. La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“La santé c'est une marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une réduction de la marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu. Cette réduction consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological