Quotes About Adaptation

At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.

Be comfortable being uncomfortable

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common - they don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views

Separation is not an event but it is a process involves enormous changes and loss

It's not in your eyes Your eyeballs won't change It's the muscles around your eyes

Consider your childhood, a construction building process, on a very, very steep ground. You need to stop consistantly and re-do your measures. So that your pillars shall exceptionally remain lofty till your life extincts..

their own and were obliged to live in various

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

Emigration is a kind of partial suicide. You don't die, but a great deal dies within you. Not least, the language.

Quizá finalmente ese sea el precio de vivir en un país extranjero. No es sólo que vives una vida distinta de la que dejaste atrás. Es que la vida en el extranjero te vuelve extraño.

One should never begrudge deletions.

Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-condition of power, and to develop in oneself the coarseness, insensibility and violence needed to exert domination.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

A healthy modern society must know how to remain the same as well as change, to conserve as well as to reform. Europe has changed without knowing how to conserve: that is its tragedy.

When I was a lark, I sang;When I was a worm, I devoured.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world's end to world's end

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

Progress is a dynamic thing, and you had to ride it leaning forward a little, like a surfboard because if you stood there flat-footed you'd get drowned.