Quotes About Adaptation

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Paj?k zje?d?a na niewidocznej nici spod sufitu. Schud? biedak, zmizernia?, bo much coraz mniej. Wspó??yje tak ze mn? od wiosny. U?atwi?em mu swego czasu polowania. Zaprzyja?nili?my si? z konieczno?ci. On czemu? nie ma kolegów, a moi wyekspirowali.

If life gives you lemons, a simple operation can give you melons.

Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

No todas las batallas se ganan avanzando. No todas las retiradas son derrotas. Avanzar es una estrategia. Retirarse es también una estrategia. Una retirada debe realizarse

the name for workers in hokkaido was "octopus." in order to stay alive, an octopus will even devour its own limbs

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

The change would be very subtle... It might take ten years or so...

Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

Even if the water becomes hot water, it will quench the fire.

It's like those kids who grow up in houses where the parents speak different languages and turn out bilingual. If they're exposed to something at an early enough age, they absorb it naturally and becomes just something normal.

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall. That's nothing more than instinct, falling back on what you know best.

Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no good at life. It takes a knack that she's never quite got hold of.

At first he wondered if he might be too old to get accustomed to it at all, but his body has come through for him.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

The thing is (…) that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

He ached with weariness, but it became part of him; he scarcely noticed now that he was weary, he might always have been thus, it was so familiar to him.