Quotes About Adaptation

When you bring puppies home, it can take a few days before they feel comfortable enough to be themselves. The move from the breeder to your house is emotionally trying and it makes them exhausted and super docile. When they get comfy with you and their surroundings, they just become normal puppies, and everything that goes with that.

If nothing else, Emily gets here next week, so that will be good." "That will be great. Except she's bringing the hellbeast with her." My spring reunion with Schatzi was much as I would have expected. She bit me twice, shat in my suitcase, and ate one of my shoes. "Well, you could always make yeast rolls...

If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we're headed. Ancient Chinese proverb

Fear is an indication that something about what lies ahead is outside our comfort zone.

You never know what the wind will blow your way, baby; you've just got to be prepared to dance to the music God provides.

But what do you think happens in a year when we aren't having a massive drought?" We

Although our inherent message must never change, our methods must.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Quien olvida fácilmente, pasa mejor el examen de su vida.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will become predictable, and a predictable enemy is much easier to defeat than one who treats his adversaries to a surprise on a regular basis.

When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another.

Wij hebben geen onvervreemdbaar en 'natuurlijk' recht op het vrije woord. Elke samenleving zal bepaalde uitingen pornografisch of opruiend achten en taboe verklaren. De betekenis van zowel 'vrij' als 'woord' wordt doorlopend aangepast om aan de behoeften van de gemeenschap tegemoet te komen.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

I became a practical person, 'healthy', normal to the point of nausea, an enemy to any type of eccentricity - and the most painful thing for me - I started to sneer at my former ideals.

humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.

He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.

when my own works disappeared from the German language I could more clearly grasp his lament at being able to produce the created word only in translation, in a diluted, altered medium.

Unsere Entschlüsse sind in viel höherem Maß von der Anpassung an Stand und Umgebung abhängig, als wir geneigt sind, uns einzugestehen.

Una vez más se confirmó el dicho de Goethe de que el entusiasmo no se adapta a un almacenaje prolongado.

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.