Quotes About Adaptation

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.