We repress and overstandardise life at our peril; by over-regimentation we crush Nature's initiative and habit of intuitive self-adaptation. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)
We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The organism is capable of “active, responsive self-adaptation,” he suggests. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)
She was accomplished — possessed of that fine perception and sensitiveness, and that ready power of self-adaptation to the peculiarities and moods of others, which we term tact — and was, moreover, gifted with a certain natural grace, and manners the most winning imaginable. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Theories such as Lamarck's, which postulate an active responsive self-adaptation of the organism, are essentially a continuation and completing of Cuvier's thought. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The mobility of labour is of course always determined within certain limits, but much may and could be done by pursuing from the beginning a right method in educating the child to develop its power of self-adaptation to the needs of a changing environment. ❋ Alexander Darroch (N/A)
But during the past hundred and fifty years, Judaism has been wrestling with the problem of self-adaptation which both the redistribution of Jewry and the incursions of materialistic secularism have called into being. ❋ Various (N/A)
A review of the salient phases in the self-adaptation of religion to the changing conditions of life and thought will throw light upon the significance of that vital method of viewing Judaism which has of late worked its way into Jewish life -- for the most part unawares. ❋ Various (N/A)
When an enactment is made there is a sacrifice of the elasticity and automatic self-adaptation of custom, but an enactment is specific and is provided with sanctions. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
If it found the circumstances only a little different, it would make shift (successfully or unsuccessfully) to modify its development accordingly; if the circumstances were widely different, it would die, probably without an effort at self-adaptation. ❋ Unknown (1910)
The whole trend of circumstance is to substitute science for mere rote skill in him, to demand initiative and an intelligent self-adaptation to new discoveries and new methods, to make him a professional man and a job and pieceworker after the fashion of the great majority of professional men. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The lately disbanded Jesuits, with characteristic flexibility of self-adaptation to circumstances, had at once reincorporated themselves under another name, thus to hold the not inconsiderable estates of their order in the State of Maryland. ❋ 1830-1907 (1897)
Oxford, that power of self-adaptation which has since won him golden opinions in the great Dominion and the greater Republic of the West. ❋ Unknown (1892)
The capacity of self-adaptation, which is characteristic of the Russian people generally, is possessed by them in the highest degree. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)
Its value to any other society must depend upon its power of self-adaptation to the ethical experience of that society. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
