Quotes About Adaptation

condemn traditional institutions but, we fervently hope, to be among

Cathy N. Davidson

The Classroom and the World Wide Web

like the Catholic Church, universities today bear a striking structural resemblance to what they were

Lacking confidence in your ability to change, it's much easier to blame the changed situation—typically, new technologies—and then dig in your heels, raising a bulwark against the new.

schools-how we teach, where we teach, who we teach, who teaches, who administers, and who services-have changed mostly around the edges.

For many immigrants, if you move here with trauma, you're going to do what it takes to get by. You cheat. You beat your wife. You gamble. You're a survivor and, like most survivors, you are a god-awful parent. Watching

My uncle said he used to start and end all his sentences with "motherfucker" because he learned his English from his black customers when he was a clothing wholesaler in New York.

For many immigrants, if you move here with trauma, you're going to do what it takes to get by. You cheat. You beat your wife. You gamble. You're a survivor and, like most survivors, you are a god-awful parent

The soul of innovation thrives on cross-cultural inspiration. If we are restricted to our lanes, culture will die.

Early on, my father learned that in America, one must be emotionally demonstrative to succeed, so he has a habit of saying "I love you" indiscriminately, to his daughters, to his employees, to his customers, and to airline personnel

His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth—the many gods, the animate spirit world—and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

who would fight the wind if it came from the west when he wanted it from the east.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

The ones he bred there in the desert, their bodies changed—or changed back, I should say. Their chests expanded from the effort of running in the sand, their eyelashes thickened to keep the fine particles out.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Leave comfort root-room.

Vooruitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed ook, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.