Adapting Quote by George Gissing Download Open image “Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.” — George Gissing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adapting Animals Creatures Humans Nature of man
“But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant… — Don Young Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment.” The irony is that, “unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all.… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it… — George Gissing Copy Share
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had added that… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? — George Gissing Copy Share Image
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
Firmino is a player who is really good at adapting to different positions. He is a No. 9, but he helps a lot in… — Fabinho Copy Share Image
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson Copy Share Image
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order to establish… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
