Quotes About Adaptation

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days—how much better things had been before the coloreds ruined everything. What they didn't acknowledge was that the things that made it bad for them made it better for everyone else.

Or any number of the jobs she'd tried and failed at before seeing a story in The Atlanta Journal about women police officers being trained for motorcycle patrol. Motorcycle patrol! Kate laughed at her naïveté. If the firearms instructors were loath to train women, the motorcycle division was downright hostile to the idea of women on bikes. The riding instructor wouldn't even allow them inside the garage.

Press evenly," the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

fault. That the world isn't just changing. It's passing you by.

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist.

children sometimes, where, as a form of self-defense, they've learned to read mood and nuance better than the typical child. They absorb an incredible amount of blame to keep the peace. They are the ultimate survivors." Faith

sick of floating between disaster points like an amoeba inside a petri dish.

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

Change tells you who you really are.

Helen didn't hold back. "I told your father that Paul was like a hermit crab. They're scavengers. They don't have the ability to make their own shells, so they cast around until they find abandoned shells, and then they move in.

buy her entry into normal society, but she hadn't realized what that society was like.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

change is the healthiest way to survive

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

One must force the frozen circumstances to dance, by singing to them their own melody.

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'.