Quotes About Adaptation

Yes, you're changed; you've got new ideas over here, her friend continued. I hope so, said Isabel, one should get as many new ideas as possible. Yes, but they shouldn't interfere with the old ones when the old ones have been the right ones.

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.

If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

Living in the midst of a world where there was a plethora of the new I attached myself to the old.

One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)

One part of me is happy only in America, the other only in Europe. Without Americans, I would be very much at home in my country.

The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

There are no birds in last year's nest.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

It is in changing that we find purpose.

No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.

To successfully interact with any individual in any setup, all you have to do is determine his or her needs, then fulfill them.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.