Quotes About Adaptation

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Sometimes things need to get broken

And I think about how I used to be the one who fixed things. How I used to be the strong one. When did this happen to me? What have I become? Effie

Published April, 1920

Even the heart in time may grow cold.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

And I must borrow every changing shapeTo find expression.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The houses are all gone under the sea.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

Be You, they will adjust

One cannot step twice into the same river

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

You can't stop the rain by worrying about it.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.