Quotes About Adaptation

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.

Keeping your nose clean while an entire system broke down around you guaranteed only that you would survive longer, not that you would survive.

No está de más mencionar que todo patrón tiene siempre alguna brecha y que un día este acaba dando un vuelco o pasa página.

I notice a deliberate change in my brother. He's harder. He has a switch, and once a fight comes near, he flicks it and he is no longer my brother Rube. He's a machine.

No puedes quedarte ahí sentado esperando que el nuevo mundo se adapte a ti, eres tú el que tiene que adaptarse....

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope,...

Ahí radicaba el problema. La vida había dado un giro de ciento ochenta grados y, sin embargo, era esencial que actuaran como si nada hubiera ocurrido. Imagínate que tienes que sonreír después de recibir un bofetón. Y luego imagínate que tienes que hacerlo las veinticuatro horas del día.

impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone.

That is the best I can do—watch it fall into line with everything else I spectated during that time.

You ate it up and you didn't ask for more, and you didn't complain.

If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.

When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being cooked until too late. That's how I felt about the Commandant and his plans for Viteretz. Each of his actions was worse than the last, but then we adjusted.

har anche sakht va ostovar ast dood mishavad va be hava miravad.

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye… Clothing, an extension of the skin… Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

if it works it's obsolete

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools—with yesterday's concepts.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental.