Quotes About Adaptation

There really is no place like home, even when it's grown a couple of sizes too small...

It isn't easy being green.

It's not easy being green.

There's always a solution, I see that now," she said. "I just didn't understand it at first. It's not the solution I wanted. But there's always a solution. It's just not the one I assumed it would be.

The things you lose do shape who you become. There's no getting around that. But the losses don't obliterate what came before.

The only way I could seem to cope with this overwhelming longing was by perseverating about what I could have changed.

To emphasize what is required for this proposed change—which is quite substantial—I like to say that I believe the synagogue needs to turn itself inside out. In other words, it has to become an institution that serves the entire local Jewish community—and, in some cases, secularists too—rather than functioning solely as an institution that serves only its members. When synagogues turn themselves inside out, all Jews and all those in Jewish families in the

If we turn the synagogue inside out, the synagogue would serve a far broader audience, one that is not restricted by the traditional notion of synagogue membership. Synagogues can reach out and serve a population larger than their current membership if they are willing to emphasize those things that the synagogue does well and that are within its purview, while refraining from those things that are irrelevant to the synagogue and its work. In too many situations

Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Nothing fails like success. In other words, when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

Sometimes you have to turn people's own weapons against them.

happen. Buildings can fall down, the church steeple can fall off, all the leaves can fall off the trees, and all the squirrels will fall off their branches.

Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi. Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)

As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster.

You live in the light, and then you become the night.

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

Change challenges our current reality by forcing a new reality to rush in.

If the disruptive change brought about by the Internet challenged you, brace yourself: multiple emerging technologies will combine to create an unprecedented period of change in the next few years.

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.

Apple isn't the world's greatest techno-innovator. Nowhere near it, in fact. Rather, it excels, in contrast, at rehashing other people's ideas.

What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality.

Sometimes we're bitching and complaining about shit we can't fucking change. Make the best of those moments. Complete those moments. And after completing them, move on rather than sitting there and letting it fuck up your day. That's my suggestion. Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving.

What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality. What? Are you going to tell me you built a secret time machine to travel back in the past and unfuck this situation? I didn't think so. So why spend a second of time complaining about it, fighting it, or resisting it?