Quotes About Adaptation

There were various things which were absolutely essential to survival: it was essential to fill oneself completely with a determination to survive; it was essential to create in oneself a capacity for dissociating oneself to some extent from Treblinka; it was important not to adapt completely to it. Complete adaptation, you see, meant acceptance. And the moment one accepted, one was morally and physically lost.

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.

única qualidade indispensável a um homem de poder é a capacidade de se apoderar das circunstâncias.

Aquilo que permanece imóvel, Vadia. No meio de todas as mudanças, nós não estamos treinados para distinguir as coisas que permanecem iguais. E isso é um grande problema, porque, quando se pensa no assunto, as coisas que não mudam são quase sempre as mais importantes.»

Se o teu amigo morreu, não o enterres. Mantém-te um pouco afastado e aguarda. Os abutres hão-de chegar e tu farás imensos amigos novos.»

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

Divide las parejas en dos juegos de cinco parejas cada uno. Muestra cada juego tres veces al día durante cinco días (o menos). Después de cinco días, retira una pareja de cada juego y añade una nueva pareja a cada juego. Sigue añadiendo una pareja nueva a cada juego y retira una antigua cada día.

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

We're not having a revolution, but an evolution.

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.