Quotes About Adaptation

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

Very good players have no problem moving to a different country.

I would have no problem with living in China. I like discovering new places and cultures, and I would not go alone - my family would go with me.

I probably played too much on the left for my liking - I'm not that kind of player who is going to get the ball and run past the full-back. Of course if it happens, you've got to do a job for the team, and no problem. But I feel better - and think you get more out of me - playing me through the middle.

It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said 'no problem,' and I've played there ever since.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Things change, people change, change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives.

money,war and time can change people

She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)

As a rule I take things as they come and try not to expect or regret much.

While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.

But I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today.

no es necesario que nuestras opiniones, nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos (todo aquello que experimentamos) nos defina para siempre. Supongo

Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.

Usually he just went about his life, doing what needed to be done and figuring out ways to enjoy the rest of his time.

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

What I can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

one of the main things that school taught, I realized, was how to lie to get by.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.