Quotes About Adaptation

Der Frosch, der am lautesten quakt, wird zu allererst vom Storch gefressen.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination - Jimmy Dean

Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

All life is problem solving

Science is a 'trial and error' learning process, and one of the virtues of an open society is its ability to learn from experience. Closed societies resist novelty and therefore pass up the chance to learn from experience.

By criticizing our theories we can let our theories die in our stead.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Lost their stomachs, sealed up their anuses and adopted the autotroph way

I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans, though they certainly make the worst Germans.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won't be the same you that makes life worth living this time next year. Identities aren't meant to be permanent. They're like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.

I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what you want. You wand to get the feeling from the movie that you got from the book, and you want the characters to evoke the characters that you fell in love with." -Nina Jacobson

The pain of being unloved was pushed off to a distance where it could not touch. I became like those flat shining beetles that live in the heart of a rotten log, a creature of no dimension, able to disappear into the narrowest of cracks.

Sometimes you can't put the pieces back together, even if you get them picked up

It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

Now think of life in the same terms. Start over when you have to. Make a second draft. Or a third. Embrace the chance you have to do things over again in a different, better, wiser way.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into someone else.