Quotes About Adaptation

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

Even if you make a mistake, make it part of the dance and move on.

What if you stumble? Do what any choreographer would instruct you to do: Make it part of the dance.

When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

A guide to turning your clocks back in November: * Smartphone: Leave it alone to do its magic * Sundial: Move one house to the left * Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering, or a hammer * Car radio: Not worth it, wait six months

The desert is a scorpion's tale of stings and survival.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

If you kill one fly, ten more will come to its funeral.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

I long for flowers that bend with the wind and rain...

Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

It is difficult to be good-natured in a hot day. Intense heat destroys even the temper of steel, and why not that of flesh and blood?

Then there's the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. "It isn't hot, brother," comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, "until the chair gets up when you do!"

When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.... when they said it was now "cold weather," I saw that they had traveled outside of their sphere of knowledge and were floundering. I believe that in India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.