Quotes About Adaptation

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Citizens of the democracies are the authors of their own destinies, and what they have made they can also change and improve.

When, instead, your goal is to focus on the process and stay in the present, then there are no mistakes and no judging. You are just learning and doing. You are executing the activity, observing the outcome, and adjusting yourself and your practice energy to produce the desired result. There are no bad emotions, because you are not judging anything.

Change equals growth.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

You're not impressing anyone with the ten-dollar words, Boggs. Fewer adjectives, please. No one's giving you a PhD for this." Since then, Boggs strained to be as succinct as possible so as not to offend his GED-holding boss. As

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

The eye accustomed to darkness can hardly bear at first the broad daylight. It is by usage the eye learns to see, and it is the same in passing from any situation to its opposite.

he woke up one morning and realized that the conditions he had been accustomed to seeing as permanent had changed. He was no longer at the center of things. After his wife died the house had gone silent. It wasn't the hearth where the clan gathered for warmth and sustenance anymore. It was just a solitary man's place.

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.

A man who falls into a fast-flowing river is wise to swim with the current.

A change of locale may produce a new flower," he counseled, "but the roots will have the same disease.

Success depends on our using, and not opposing...

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.