Quotes About Adaptation

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." —René Dubos

What do you call that moment when we let go of the conviction, albeit illusory, that life will only grow larger? That the horizon will always expand?

Fate gives us relatives for one reason: so that we have to learn how to deal with people we'd otherwise never know.

While many things have changed, some things haven't changed enough.

Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.

The greatest lesson we teach our children is how to survive us.

We are always permeable, shifting. We are all only one strange leap away from becoming inconceivable to our former selves.

When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance, they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called, "use the difficulty." How can you "use the difficulty" in your life?

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

The trip changed all that. Stirring the murk of a life ill-fitting, Something More was perceptible though without name or form. Something More was the genesis of a map, not one handed to me but rendered with each step taken, a skill seasoned by a cruise gone bad.

Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.

There's more to marathon day than running long. Learning how your body reacts to the early alarm, light breakfast and warm-up is key. Minimize surprises come race day. Run long the same time of day as the race.

Giorgio Nardone

Non s'impara qualcosa dagli altri che nelle conversazioni a due, dove colui che insegna si adatta alla natura dell'altro, rispiega, esemplifica, domanda, discute e non detta il suo verbo dall'alto.

Quando uno lascia il suo paese è meglio che non ci torni più, perché ogni cosa muta faccia mentre egli è lontano, e anche le faccie con cui lo guardano son mutate, e sembra che sia diventato straniero anche lui.

This included the famous tale Cavalleria rusticana, later adapted by Verga for the theatre, this adaptation then being used as the basis for the libretto of Mascagni's opera.

Ogni generazione ha i suoi particolari difetti.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the Now.