Quotes About Adaptation

I think certain types of processes don't allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself...

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.

Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas

Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn't mean it's good or bad. Probably means it's no big deal.

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.

It's important in life to get used to losing.

El mundo no se pone patas arriba tan fácilmente. Las que están patas arribas son las personas.

That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.

But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you're not the same person you were either.

The passage of time usually extract the venom from most things and render them harmless.

After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren't so easy anymore — just as a fastball pitcher's speed starts to slip away with time. Of course, it's possible for people as they mature to make up for a decline in natural talent. Like when a fastball pitcher transforms himself into a cleverer pitcher who relies on changeups. But there is a limit. And there definitely is a sense of loss.

a person's mind is controlled by his body, right? Or is it the opposite—the way your mind works influences the structure of the body? Or do the body and mind closely influence each other and act on each other? What I do know is that people have certain inborn tendencies, and whether a person likes them or not, they're inescapable. Tendencies can be adjusted, to a degree, but their essence can never be changed.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.