#adapt

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. ↗

— John Burns

#am #continue #doing #done #ever

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#attain #capacity #considered #greatest #greatest happiness

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#broken #first #first time #getting #guys

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know. ↗

— Michael Vick

#adapt #crazy #dog #environment #family

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#after #capacity #chain #could #events

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#adaptation #before #bringing #called #discussions

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. ↗

— Clarence Day

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