Quotes About Adaptation

And what happens when you stop innovating? Everyone else catches up, your jobs go overseas, and then you cry foul: Ooohh, they're paying them less over there, and the playing field is not level. Well, stop whining and start innovating.

No, it's not Pluto. Get over it.

As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.

It's also good, apparently, for residents of Missouri.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

The problem many people have is that the exact quality that originally attracted them to their partner becomes a threat once a serious relationship begins.

My brain pupated into a butterfly." I

Mystery calls it dynamic social homeostasis.

There were guys who were uptight and set in their ways, like Cliff, who couldn't even handle having a nickname like everybody else. They tended to gather as much knowledge as they could but had trouble making even the smallest behavioral change.

Project Hollywood was bringing me out of my solipsistic shell. It was giving me the resources I needed to be a leader; it was teaching me how to walk the tightrope of group dynamics; it was helping me learn to let go of petty things like personal property, solitude, cleanliness, sanity, and sleep.

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

She wasn't any more familiar with boutique shopping in Bombay or the challenges of dating someone in the movie industry, but she knew what it was to feel that you would never become fully adult in the country where you lived, would never understand the jokes or master the graces that came so naturally to everyone around you.

We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about. Aren't people that way everywhere: Amina said. I mean, when they lose something?

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

My sister, Lynne, has relocated with her A-hole husband to the West Coast—wherever that is.

I think if I worked with the stuff they worked with, I, too, wouldn't make any long-range plans. Hell, I wouldn't even buy green bananas.

of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently

But a man can't swim in the same river twice, because it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world as the future starts to look more and more like someplace you don't want to be.

Brodie smiled. He said, "When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it's time to leave.