Adaptation is the transformation of an organism by incorporating the environment into its extended cognitive system.

Adaptation is the desire to control environment.

Adaptation is inherent in man. There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Adaptation is a necessary faculty of that scoundrel, man. He can grow used to everything.

Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

Cooperation is not an unmixed blessing: when snowflakes cooperate, they tie up traffic.

Cooperation is everything — freckles would make a nice coat of tan if they'd get together.

Cooperation is doing what I tell you to do, and doing it quick.

Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Curiosity is, as neugierig, an avarice (gier) of the new (neu), an everyday tendency of Dasein to let itself be restlessly carried along solely by the way the world appears.

Curiosity is a search for novelty and endless stimulation rather than belonging or dwelling.