Quotes About Adaptation

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Necessity has no law.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Time is the greatest innovator.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.