“Adapt and overcome.”

“Psychologically speaking, what such findings seem to mean is that an achievement is not only more frequently present in stories from more rapidly developing countries but when it is present, it is more apt to be “means” oriented rather than goal oriented. The achievement sequence more often dwells on obstacles to success and specific means of overcoming them, rather than on the goal itself, the desire for it, and the emotions surrounding attaining or failing to attain it. The adaptive quality of such a concern with means is obvious: a people who think in terms of ways of overcoming obstacles would seem more likely to find ways of overcoming them in fact.”

David C. McClelland (1917–1998) American psychological theorist

“Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt -- species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“Even nature teaches us to adapt to different seasons. Adaptation is the key to a better life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Adapt or die.”

P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister

“The adaptation observed in men, animals and plants… one part of this adaptation is explained from a thought-process in the interior of these bodies… another part, however, the adaptation of the organism, by a thought-process in a greater whole.”

Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) German mathematician

“Life is a constant adaptation.”

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”

Jean M. Auel (1936) Novelist