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- Nov 07, 2020
Adaptive Quotes
How people and species respond to change.
These adaptive quotes explore how people and species respond to change, from instinctive reactions to crisis to the way music and aging require constant adjustment. See Good quotes for more on growth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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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 form cohesive social groups.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.
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Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.
- Introspection
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technology that lets many people use the same radio channel at the same time is called smart antenna technology or adaptive array technology or interference mitigation. This technology uses computer processors to take the signals from multiple antennas at each location and sorts the various signals out so they don't interfere with each other.
- Mortal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020