Custom adapts itself to expediency.
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (. . . ) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.
My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.
