Adaptive Strategies Quotes

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

There's major changes happening with technology and economics. But unfortunately, the initial reaction on any new frontier, it gets bloody, and people are overreacting, and very defensive, and they're not taking risks. In fact, they're taking such safe measures that they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against them.

It's all a game, with new rules every season.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

Our Holy Father... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we need to do this in a way that the Holy Father says is creative. We need to do it in a way that we look for new strategies that address the hearts of people.

Life will find a way.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.