Adapt or die Quotes

“Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.”

“All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

“Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.”

“Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.”

“#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.”

“...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be the most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.”

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. This suggestion differs sharply from the thesis of the NDT, which holds that evolution occurs only at the level of the population. Organisms contain within themselves the information that enables them to develop a phenotype adaptive to a variety of environments. The adaptation can occur by a change in the genome through a genetic change triggered by the environment, or it can occur without any genetic change.”

“Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.”

“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ”