Quotes About Adaptation

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.

but death can't be the final word, can it? I mean, look at this fire. The wood that we threw on it has been decimated, or so it seems, but in reality, the wood has been transformed into gasses and ashes. I think about that, you know, about how nothing is ever destroyed, but only changes form.

Stop wishing that the traffic wasn't so heavy, you live here, this is rush hour, deal with it.

Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move.

Se si sappia vivere da vinti, lo si è un po' meno.

In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today. Nowadays, how do we hold on to those we love? I've no idea.

the attacking players would need to become the best defenders; and the defenders would have to become the first line of attack, moving the ball forward from the back.

This is the beautiful thing about this job, because each rival, each situation, is different to the previous one and you always have to find that special something, to say to them "Guys, today is important

He continually learnt from everything he saw around him, from other teams, from coaches, from older team-mates. On one occasion, he asked a couple of his colleagues to repeat a free-kick routine he had seen the B side perform the previous weekend. The move led to a goal and their coach asked, 'Whose idea was that? And where did you pick that up?' 'From the grown-up players,' responded a fifteen-year-old Pep Guardiola.

At the end of his spell in Argentina he felt that he was better prepared than ever before; not totally, because Pep will never allow himself to be completely satisfied, but he felt ready enough to start putting everything he had learnt to the test.

Abidal explains that before he arrived at Barcelona, every time he was called into action on the pitch, as a defender he'd been taught to focus on winning the ball. As soon as he arrived at Barcelona, he was taught to think one step ahead about what he could do with it once he'd got hold of it.

In future they must place themselves more cleverly to receive the pass, and to start pressuring their opponents more quickly.

He jokes about only wanting to see the restaurants, but it is all about learning . . . about new cultures, and how to then incorporate those cultures into his coaching.

You get the player, based on what we need, and I will make it work,' has always been his take on signings.

Si alguna vez te persiguen, hazte monte», le sugirió el Máquinas. «Hacerse monte»: meterse entre las ramas y quedarse inmóvil.

en el arte se hace lo que se puede, no lo que se quiere».

Pos los de Zaragoza estamos con los de acá.» Táctica de supervivencia: la ambigüedad.

It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.