Quotes About Adaptation

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

It's during wartime that innovations happen.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

Conservatives are wary of change. We have respect for things that have lasted a long time and have been proved to work. When things need changing, we should make the changes with respect to all the reasons why those things worked originally as well as the reasons why amendment is necessary.

When a new manager comes in you are naturally wary and it does cross your mind that you might not figure in his plans.

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

All the clothes I got before my son was born; he can't really wear them! Either you can't wash them, or they're too hard to get on and off - you know, so many baby clothes have sleeves that don't let the baby's arms go in and out. It's ridiculous!

After I finished school, I headed for Los Angeles, thinking, 'Movies. Beaches.' But I wanted to do serious stage work, so I upped sticks and moved to New York to study. I did the usual day jobs to support myself - waiting on tables, washing dishes, parking cars, anything to pay the rent. I was a terrible waiter, by the way.

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

You won't like hearing this, but sometimes you can't fix what you broke. Sometimes you just have to live with it.

Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple." "It was simple." "Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.

I hate this plan!" the surveyor was shouting. "The road was perfectly straight. This is a pimple in the face of my road!" "Get out your equipment and mark us a perfect semicircle," said Arnando, cool as morning dew. "Make the best of it, you geometrical tyrant.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.

Switch places," Sam ordered me. "What are we doing, playing musical partners here?" "I didn't know we were playing with Foosball sharks here.We're starting over.

I'd actually spent some time in my bedroom moving around using only one leg,trying to raise my sympathy level when I got really frustrated with him.

I'm Josh Wynter, by the way." "And do you become Josh Summer in June?" I asked.

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.

Checklists and plans are useful tools as long as we use them as guides and not rulebooks. As we journey through life, we are supposed to change and so should our goals.

Don't worry now about what you can't change. Rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrow's battles.

Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.

Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?

If you can't turn cold into hot, you're fucked. Go ahead and apply that to all areas of life.