Quotes about Adaptation
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
— Marilyn Monroe
Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
— Mark Twain
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
— George Eliot
Nothing is more obvious than the need for change. Nothing is less obvious than what needs to change and how that change happens.
— Timothy Lane
My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.
— Timothy Lane
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
— Phillips Brooks
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
— Oscar Wilde
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature
— Oscar Wilde
He who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
— Oscar Wilde
My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.
— Oscar Wilde
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The
— Oscar Wilde