Quotes About Adaptation

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

As our planet faces seemingly insurmountable odds, we must find new ways to survive and thrive together.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.