Adaptive Quotes

46 quotes by 46 authors

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority… — John W. Snow
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. — Charles de Gaulle
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how… — Yo-Yo Ma
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere… — Murray Gell-Mann
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had… — Helen Fisher
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child… — Ted Hughes
Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may… — Amish Tripathi
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what… — Warren G
Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive? — Fred Emery
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function. — Ernst von Glasersfeld
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It… — Huston Smith
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through… — Osman Rashid
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there… — Frans de Waal
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. — Jamais Cascio
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism… — David Perlmutter
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in… — Alex Shoumatoff
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and… — Tim Jackson
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us,… — Yochai Benkler

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