Quotes About Adaptation

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!

The fact that I will daily question my willingness to change will increase my ability to be increasingly willing.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

Neighborhood What do I care that they're tearing down the nice old houses and putting up brutal ones? Before very long, I'll be just a breeze blowing around town, trying to avoid all the wind chimes.

There ain't no island left for islanders like me.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the material is new. In playing tennis both players use the same ball, but one plays it better. I would just as soon be told that I have used old words. As if the same thoughts did not form a different argument by being differently arranged, just as the same words make different thoughts when arranged differently!

Yes, the wind came up-- Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused. And changed us all, Petra said softly.

my grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day--they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.

Brodsky couldn't accept the notion that an industry, any industry, was closed to new competition. He realized that if he was going to get anywhere in records storage, he would have to come up with an approach to the business different from that of the established records-storage providers. That meant using his peripheral vision, looking at the business this way and that until he saw something that everybody else was missing.

I learned about the yucca plant, and how the Indians made rope and sandals and mats and baskets, even soap from it, and how they boiled its buds and flowers and fruits to eat. I learned about manzanita and piñon nuts and mesquite beans, and how to crush dried acorns in a mortar, then bake them in unleavened cakes. I had even tasted the stuff and wished I hadn't.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

There is nothing so stable as change.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range I used to care, but things have changed