Quotes About Adaption

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Between who you once were, and who you are becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place; dance to the tunes of life with great new knowledge.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

Remember: You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky." (p.275)

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.