Quotes About Adaptation

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Other times, other customs.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.