Quotes About Adaptation

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

However, these communities were also subject to the infusion of the world around them and their notion of tradition became altered in the very act of dissimulation. They 'falsely' believed they were protecting something old when, in fact, they were creating something new.

We learn from continual practice, but exercises need variety in order to solicit new responses.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The problem is that this "place" is in the past. And it does no good to adapt to a past that is only an echo now. There is no refuge there.

We move, we grow, and our response to significant events in our lives can change how we function.

Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

It's just taking some getting used to. The snarling, the hissing, the purring. Then I have to deal with it from the baby…." "Ha, ha," Mace stated dryly.

Ric stared up at the lion siblings. How Lock hadn't killed them already, he didn't know. If nothing else, Ric would have had them…managed by now. They'd be alive, but in Siberia.

Gee. What's that puddle at Nik's feet? Why, that's Angie Santiago. She used to be an ice princess now she's just a sopping mess.

Your sense of humor is not for everyone, but I have to say it's growing on me. Like an out-of-control fungus.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.