Quotes about Adaptation

As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, " Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name."1

Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

Imagine if you were asked by your country to be an ambassador to an enemy nation. You would probably have to learn a new language and adapt to some customs and cultural differences in order to be polite and accomplish your mission. As an ambassador you would not be able to isolate yourself from the enemy. To fulfill your mission, you would have to have contact and relate to them.

Most people think of "vision" as the ability to see the future. But in today's rapidly changing world, vision is also the ability to accurately assess current changes and take advantage of them. Vision is being alert to opportunities.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.