Quotes About Adaptation

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Better to accept whatever happens.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score.

When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.