Quotes About Adaptation

A veces, un hipócrita no es más que una persona en proceso de cambio.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them." Her

Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.

You don't have the luxury of being bad at this. Don't complain. Change.

You can't control everything. But if you can control how people regard you, then you can find a place in this mess.

Yo tampoco sé lo que soy. ¿Hombre del puente? ¿Cirujano? ¿Soldado? ¿Esclavo? Solo son etiquetas. Dentro, soy yo. Un yo muy distinto del que era hace un año, pero no puedo preocuparme por eso, así que sigo adelante y espero que mis pies me lleven adonde necesito ir. -Kaladin-

He'd once believed he had been four men in his life, but he now saw he'd grossly underestimated. He hadn't lived as two, or four, or six men—he had lived as thousands, for each day he became someone slightly different.

as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

You've been reforged. It can happen to men.

But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.

This far into the Unclaimed Hills, the highstorms were incredibly powerful. The plants had learned to survive. That's what you had to do, learn to survive. Brace yourself, weather the storm.

New tastes are like new ideas ... the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

Don't you see? Hope is a good thing—a wonderful thing—but you must have hope in something appropriate. If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future.

You must understand that he knew the risks of living in an undeveloped civilization. Creatures of lesser intelligence cannot be held responsible for their acts of barbarity. You have not yet learned a better way.

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Time moves like a mountain. It comes so slowly that most don't even notice its passing. It will, however, crush thise who don't move before it.

Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same—and do it far, far more effectively.

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.

Nothing would teach me but personal experience. I'm just going to have to muddle through these first few times.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.

how often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working—just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low—self-examination.

We have to be able to take feedback—regardless of how it's delivered—and apply it productively. We have to do this for a simple reason: Mastery requires feedback. I don't care what we're trying to master—and whether we're trying to develop greatness or proficiency—it always requires feedback.