Quotes About Adaptation

It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette.

Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don't know the nature of the beast it will eat you up.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

The technological society has walked off the court, so to speak, but they've left all the basketballs behind. Someone will come along who remembers the game and teach it to the rest again.

When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation.

I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.

It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest.

Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.

Once things were different, but now they're the same. He reckons he can live with that; for a guy like him, the rule of thumb is just SSDD, and so fucking what. You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum.

Some people say you can't change behavior. But there is clear evidence to indicate that people can and do change behavior—sometimes dramatically—and that doing so often produces extraordinary results.

H]e who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.

How many men have failed to stay intellectually sharp and so gave up ground in their professions to others with more active minds? How many have lost money through uninformed investments or have not taken opportunities in expanding fields or have missed promotions because they had not bothered to learn about new technologies or what changes social media, for example, would bring to their jobs?

All couples start off as Romeo and Juliet and end up as Laurel and Hardy.

You've learned to play faithfulness in one key, but there are thousands of keys to play it in.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

In fact, "grow or die" is the moral imperative of all existence.

We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?

It has everything to do with having a wrong map. If you have the right map of Chicago, then diligence becomes important, and when you encounter frustrating obstacles along the way, then attitude can make a real difference. But the first and most important requirement is the accuracy of the map.

if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.