Quotes About Adaptation

Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem.

The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after him.

Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.

What we inherited from the past must not be permitted to shackle us in the future. State of the Union Address January 19, 1977

The greatest challenge is normalizing the abnormal and making the extraordinary ordinary.

Der große Unterschied zwischen meinen Eltern und mir: In ihrer Jugend wurden die Freiheiten immer größer, in meiner wurden sie Jahr für Jahr immer kleiner.

Li?u em có s?ng sót n?i sau c?n kh?ng ho?ng tu?i trung niên c?a anh không?

Deviza mea: transform?-te în ceea ce ur??ti.

Being in company forces one to jostle, hamper, walk at the wrong speed for others. When walking it's essential to find your own basic rhythm, and maintain it. The right basic rhythm is the one that suits you, so well that you don't tire and can keep it up for ten hours. But it is highly specific and exact. So that when you are forced to adjust to someone else's pace, to walk faster or slower than usual, the body follows badly.

Bir kez ayaklar? üstüne dikildi mi, oldu?u yerde kalamaz insan.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Louise Clark's southern accent was as thick as hominy grits. No one else in the Philadelphia branch of her family had such an accent. Her mother and father had dropped theirs as soon as they crossed the Pennsylvania state line.

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It works with what is already there and takes the path of least resistance. It is not always the most efficient solution, but it is the dumbest solution that works

Storytelling and ritual enactment are amongst the oldest arts, predating the communication of narrative in written form; thus while a specific adaptation project might yet be taxed with trampling on hallowed, pre-laid, literary ground, theatre itself has authoritative claims as a space historically defined by narrative (re)telling.

Magnificently unpreparedFor the long littleness of life.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.

Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable.

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often. That was the only way to survive.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Hmm. Did you used to be smaller? About so high?' He held out his hand three and a half feet above what now appeared to be the ground. 'Er...yes? Um...some years ago?' Neverfell was not sure what more to say. 'That's...normal, isn't it? People getting bigger?' 'Yes, I suppose so.