Quotes About Adaptation

Quiérase o no, siempre se es bilingüe desde una lengua, aquella en la que uno se aposenta primero, siquiera provisoriamente, aquella en la que uno se reconoce.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a tombstone.

I can't take things as they come, or make them come as I choose.

I borrow the stilts of an old tragedy.

And so I stand, a little sightless. So I walk Away on wheels, instead of legs, they serve as well. And learn to speak with fingers, not a tongue. The body is resourceful.

I can change, whittle my square edges to fit in a round hole. God, I hope I'm never going to massacre myself that way.

Of the ear, old worrier. Water mollifies the flint lip, And daylight lays its sameness on the wall. The grafters are cheerful, Heating the pincers, hoisting the delicate hammers. A current agitates the wires Volt upon volt. Catgut stitches my fissures. A workman walks by carrying a pink torso. The storerooms are full of hearts. This is the city of spare parts. My swaddled legs and arms smell sweet as rubber. Here they can doctor heads, or any limb.

I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.

If i never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

Modern innovations in Benidorm have not disturbed the rhythm of native customs.

Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet - T S Eliot - used in The Book Of Peach

There's a saying that author and speaker Jim Rohn uses that makes perfect sense here: "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got.

It's the same with people as well as all other living organisms: if you are not growing, you are dying.

If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones. The results will eventually speak for themselves.

The lesson is simple. If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones. The results will eventually speak for themselves.

If you want to change

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos. Mira, si lo que has estado haciendo estuviese funcionando, ya serías rico y feliz.

Prepárate lo mejor que puedas en el menor tiempo posible y pasa a la acción; después, ve corrigiendo por el camino.

Sabías que en el universo no hay ninguna línea recta? La vida no se mueve en líneas perfectamente rectas, sino

Si sigues haciendo lo que has hecho siempre, continuarás obteniendo lo que siempre has obtenido

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos.

Si quieres cambiar los frutos, tendrás que modificar primero las raíces. Si

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it