Quotes about Adaptation

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

Three Tasks of a Good Missionary Learn the language: educate yourself on how to talk in a way that people can understand and to which they can relate and eventually respond Study the culture: become so sensitized to that culture that you can operate effectively within it Translate the gospel: translate it into its own cultural context so that it can be heard, understood, and appropriated

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.

A zebra does not change its spots.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.

Adopt the pace of nature.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.