Quotes About Adaptation

Para qué sirve jugar con los hijos? Es la manera más directa de entrar en relación con ellos. Generalmente, les pedimos que se adapten al mundo de los adultos –cosa que hacen, por ejemplo, soportando largas jornadas escolares–. Jugar con ellos es hacer el camino inverso: nosotros nos adaptamos un rato al mundo de los niños. Parece ser un trato justo. Definitivamente, jugar es una cosa seria. Y los niños están dispuestos a enseñarnos las reglas.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Trial and error is Creativity's way of prolonging the fun.

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.

Like a phoenix rising from ashes, she had created a new life for herself out of the wreckage of the old one, and it suited her down to the ground. She was a duchess with no duke, a mistress with no master, and much to the bafflement of society, she liked it that way. Her life was comfortable, safe, and as predictable as a finely tuned machine, every aspect within her control.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

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Mrs. Monaghan says we don't always have to say what we like and what we don't like. We should just practice dealing with it.

Life perfects us, if we let it.

The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

They were better, even angry Honorata. Roza could have been any of them, every one of them. The story hadn't changed. Only the costumes. Only the players.

When you think about it, building this fence is crazy. Animals will keep climbing over it, or under it, or chewing their way through it. All kinds of animals. Maybe even some we didn't know existed.

A man, even a man like Charlie Valentine, had limited room for memories, and the new ones kept kicking the old ones out, the way slang replaces the proper names for this or for that, cheapening the nouns and verbs until they were barely recognizable.

Modern companies live and die based on how quickly they can face, embrace, and absorb change.

By its very nature, strategic thinking requires you to learn to make the best decisions you can as quickly as possible, boosting innovation and flexibility, helping your team adapt to circumstances as they change.

come from this rule. One night off can change the entire rhythm of the week. If your night off is Tuesday, you feel more tranquil during a rough Monday-night bedtime routine, because you know this mini-vacation is coming up. You manage your energy during the Tuesday workday so that you've got plenty for the evening. You think through potential problems and ways

Life won't always work as anyone wishes. That's the reason for the next chapter, which talks about creating a resilient schedule. An ideal schedule will also have to change over time as life changes. But if you know the ideal schedule, at least for now, then you can make decisions with that schedule in mind. As your experienced time gets closer to your ideal time, you'll be happier. That's a great thing to experience—as many times per week as possible.

I suppose I should make all the skis six foot and let Leif grow into them. That way we could all use them easy enough." He shook his head. "I know my wife would love to ski again. You ever seen anyone carry a baby in a sling or backpack while on skis?

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

He takes a chicken tender and dunks it into the honey mustard. Something about that makes me sad. Because all the little things about him, like the way he loves honey mustard and the way he always forgets the cheese on my burger, aren't mine anymore. It's weird that everything can be the same, that he can go on liking honey mustard, and yet everything is different.