Quotes About Adaptation

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

If there is no wind, row.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.