Quotes About Adaptation

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

All this happened, more or less.

Basketball Rule #10 A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

Basketball Rule #8 Sometimes you have to lean back a little and fade away to get the best shot.

From Playbook Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.-Scottie Pippen, six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls.

You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

You play the percentages in this game. If you try to plan for every lightning strike and shark attack you just end up paralyzed.

America's ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger.

If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

if I take much more, you will begin to change. And

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

Well dressed to-day; only a langouti tomorrow. --Mauritius proverb

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.