Quotes About Adaptation

I can put on a hat, or put on a coat, Or wear a pair of glasses or sail a boat. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do most anything, but I'm still myself inside. I can go far away, or dream of anything, Or wear a scary costume or act like a king. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do almost anything, but I'm still myself. I'm still myself. I'm still myself inside.

It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?

Adamsberg, badi bene, non attacca, ma ti trasforma, ti accerchia, ti prende alle spalle, ti neutralizza e alla fine ti disarma. Non può essere né braccato né preso. Neanche da lei, Regina Mathilde.

People say times have changed. That just means they've got more discreet.

Il n'arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu'on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu'on n'arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu'on n'arrive plus à replier une chemise comme l'avait fait la vendeuse. Les plis du tissu sont là, bien marqués, on les suit, mais le résultat n'est plus parfait, il est personnel.

1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.

Politics consists more in profiting from favorable circumstances than preparing them in advance.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past, no matter how good it was—especially for an institution like The Washington Post.

Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

You'll always find something wrong with wherever you are because it will never quite match your idea of what it "should" be.

The Dalai Lama famously said, "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

One day Earth will be as Mars is today. This will sober us. It's an object lesson in civilizations.

No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is