Quotes About Adaptation

The kind of hope I have doesn't begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can't, it can't ever, that's not how time works.

That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.

We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!

So it is written—but so, too, it is crossed out. You can write over it again. You can make notes in the margins. You can cut out the whole page. You can, and you must, edit and rewrite and reshape and pull out the wrong parts like bones and find just the thing and you can forever, forever, write more and more and more, thicker and longer and clearer. Living is a paragraph, constantly rewritten.

All the hair dye diluted itself into the sea a long time ago and I hope the jellyfish enjoyed their time as platinum blondes, I really and honestly do.

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.

That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

For the wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes.

Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.

But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that's waiting on the other side of five years from now. That's a stranger waiting to ambush you, and all you can do is plant your feet and try not to get thrown.

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

One doesn't behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!

All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.

A sorrow is a resourceful beast.

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.

People can get used to almost anything.

is that we don't always get what we deserve but we have to learn to live with what we get.

The new education must prepare our students to thrive in a world of flux, to be ready no matter what comes next. It must empower them to be leaders of innovation and to be able not only to adapt to a changing world but also to change the world.

Our argument here is that our institutions of learning have changed far more slowly than the modes of inventive, collaborative, participatory learning offered by the Internet and an array of contemporary mobile technologies.

could walk into most college classrooms today and know exactly where to stand and how to address his class. If we are going to imagine new learning institutions that are not based on the contiguity of

Self-learning has bloomed;