Quotes About Adaptation

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

Learn to think continentally.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

I've been here so long . . . when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick yet.

If Noah found himself back on Earth, you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.