Quotes About Adaptation

One might expect, on the basis of its overwhelming advantages, that the Dvorak keyboard would have completely replaced the inferior QWERTY keyboard. On the contrary, after more than 50 years, almost all typists are still using the inefficient QWERTY keyboard.

The average American school lags twenty-five years behind the best practice" (Mort, 1953).

Fused relationships are extremely difficult to transform until (at least) one member is willing to differentiate.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

Alternatively, the person may be reacting normally to an intolerable situation, but misguided professionals incorrectly focus on changing the individual rather than modifying the person's situation or environment.

The change came a long way back, but at first it didn't show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations

Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations.

From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Humans wore skin and clothes— many clothes instead of fur. Would have been smarter to grow fur, but humans were never smart.

Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.

New beginnings often started with the broken bits and shattered pieces of the old.

And I wondered if the oak could steal the DNA pattern from thorns and incorporate them into its own DNA. Some plants could do that.

But the old are more resilient than you think. They get used to bad indigestion, putting up with arthritis, gout, gammy legs, bad backs, you name it. They almost expect to hurt.

fighting a losing battle was pointless, and it was far better to keep your powder dry for the battles you could win.

Maybe it never got easier for the families concerned. Perhaps they just got slowly more and more used to it until, one day, they were able to wake up and could simply ignore the pain and loss for whole hours at a time.

Easily led. And obviously used to being handled by the women in his life. Excellent. It meant that he'd already been thoroughly house-trained.

supposed he'd get used to the smell eventually, even though he

Am I more than you bargained for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear Cause that's just who I am this week

I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix

Am I more than you bargained for? Been dying to tell you anything, you want to hear, cause' that's just who I am this week.