Quotes About Adaptation

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Change doesn't come without struggle.

I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present.

At home, I set the table and make my bed," said Krista. "I like the chores I do here much better--like baking and taking food out to the pigs." Amanda helped get dinner ready. "I miss a normal carrot peeler," she said as she scraped vegetables with a knife. Then she started to shuck corn. "Now that I think about it," she added, "I wish someone in the future would invent a corn peeler.

After walking on rocks in these shoes all week, I really miss good roads," said Amanda. "One thing I like a lot less here is the bugs," said Hilary. "Wait a minute," said Catherine, "We have the same bugs now, too." "Yeah," Hilary answered, "but they didn't have anything to kill them with back then.

Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

Facts don't change. How we see them does.

Perfection is a moving target

And just as this illness changed his life, and hers, and Claudette's and their house on rue de l'Agneau, so it changed that old, cracked globe. It felt different in her hands--smaller. She'd hold it like an egg that could break under her touch. Because now Jeanne's mind could not be on future of foreign countries, it had to be on the cutting up of food, the emptying of chamber pots. Her life moved around her father, and loving him more closely--and how could she resent this?

It's amazing how people can change behind closed doors.

This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were to remain silent, listen, perhaps in response you might be able to move in a new way. Glide into it slowly, aware of every slight difference, skin and cells intelligent, reading. But trained as you are in certain regimens, chances are you proceed directly according to the old patterns, trying again what was tried before.

I'm almost sad for them. How they can't adjust to the fact that things have changed. That it's not going to be like it was. Just because you have something, just because you hold on tight, doesn't mean it will last. Sometimes you can only watch helplessly as it slips from your grasp. You say good-bye before your ready. You may even refuse to say good-bye at all. Still, it slips away

Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

Life is about shifting the balance in favor of change, and try as we might to hold on forever to the best of moments, it's simply impossible.

It's funny how life can change so suddenly when you're least expecting it.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

the more you try to get reality to fit within your comfort zone, the more unprepared you are to deal with a world full of surprise, complexity, and change. Likewise, if we persist in trying to get our relationships to conform to our expectations instead of letting them be how they actually are, we may miss important opportunities to know ourselves and others more deeply.

4. Attachment offers a secure base. Secure attachment also provides a secure base from which individuals can explore their universe and most adaptively respond to their environment. The presence of such a base encourages exploration and a cognitive openness to new information. It promotes the confidence necessary to risk, learn, and continually update models of self and the world.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.