Quotes About Adaptation

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

As your customer is changing how they buy, it's imperative that you change how you sell"

We want to create a product that keeps people coming back and allows them to continue building when their needs change.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

En la vida, veinte años pasan a veces sin dejarnos huellas, y quince días nos lo desmoronan todo por fuera y por dentro

Cuando se ha perdido la brújula, lo inmediato es navegar a la deriva, no saber a qué atenerse en temas clave de la vida, lo que le conduce a la aceptación y canonización de todo.

Nidoterapia (terapia del nido, cuyo nombre deriva del latín nidus, nido), que es una nueva estrategia terapéutica que se debe utilizar en trastornos de personalidad persistentes y que significa el intento de modificar el entorno, el medio sociofamiliar de un sujeto para intentar reducir al mínimo influencias negativas sobre él.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Those who glorify the past and seek to re-create it, almost invariably fail, while those who view it comprehensively and critically are able to draw on the past in meaningful and lasting ways.

At a certain point a totally new garment has to be produced, not only because something more beautiful is required, but also out of regard for the integrity of the aged and venerable tunic.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Furthermore, a cell has no ability to improve its basic function. Bacteria that becomes resistant to antibiotics are still bacteria. Fruit flies that develop mutations are still fruit flies. Moths that change color are still moths. Birds that develop longer and shorter beaks are still birds. Therefore, one organism has no natural ability to change into another organism. (chapter 10)

It's true she was a flower. But a flower that thrives in the wrong place is a weed.

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

One can imagine that if humanity suddenly disappeared from the planet, the cat would shrug its shoulders, raise its tail, and return to its forest habitat, there to live as its ancestors have done for two million years, forever in search of something small, furry, and squeaky to play with.