Quotes About Adaptation

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.