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Quotes About Adaptation

When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with Wired, "The game character, like the self, is contextual.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She retraced the same route she and Sam had taken just that morning when the world seemed soft-focused and filled with possibility. The path now seemed dismal and dangerous to her. And she thought to herself that it was strange how quickly the world could shift. She let her mind go to the dark place.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But sometimes, you have to make your game in the time that you have. If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
~ Glass Flowers
Most of the time, Sam did not experience himself as disabled, but the cobblestones, the ice, and the glacial pace at which he had to negotiate them suggested otherwise.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Limitations are style if you make them so.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
as coisas que nos tocam aos vinte não são necessariamente as que nos tocam aos quarenta, e vice-versa. isso é verdade para livros e para a vida.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
your sense of self could change depending on your location.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Die Liebe ist Konstante und Variable zugleich.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
she had been struck by how the exact same route could look and feel so different. One minute, Sam was there, the game was completed, and the world was filled with potential. Twelve hours later, Sam was gone, the game was far from her thoughts, and the world was grim and murderous. It is the same world, she thought, but I am different. Or is it a different world, but I am the same? For a moment, she felt dangerously untethered from her body and from reality
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Emily B. Marks.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Something I've learned is that when you don't have many resources, you have to be even more rigorous with your style. Limitations are style if you make them so.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Life is messy. Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it" -Dr. Lau
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
and James Patterson (or whoever writes for James Patterson)—
~ Gabrielle Zevin