Quotes About Adaptation

But do you ever see butterflies hanging out with caterpillars? No you don't. They've nothing in common.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Jefferson himself believed it was the "solemn opportunity" of every generation to update the constitution "every nineteen or twenty years.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Structure ignites spontaneity.

Ultimately, the only techniques that can help us are those we invent ourselves.

People adjust to their circumstances. People subject to the most barbaric cruelty can still delight in a baby's laugh or feel moments of perfect contentment lying on a grassy hillside in the sun. There is something beautiful in our capacity to accommodate atrocity, even if it can also be our undoing.

We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population densities we have achieved. In

Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger engines.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

If you can see the shape of things to come,' he says, 'and then put yourself into what you see, you will find yourself there.

The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

To get something different, you must do something different.

Certain situations need a Jedi-like approach. One of these is when you are in a strange environment, usually where you feel unsure of yourself. You would be surprised how, if you walk with confidence and meaning, people will see this as a mark of confidence, yet you are perhaps shaking inside but outwardly you have the gait of a confident Jedi Knight.

Never cry for the same reason twice.

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.

Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don't just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!

We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

If someone wants to be in your world then they will be anything you want them to in it.

From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn't accept it and I just wouldn't accept it.