Quotes About Adaptation

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

People get used to anything, if it just goes on.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do.

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for "feel.

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.

Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.

I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire.

So plans of attack, what good are they then? We try, we do what we can, but what really counts is what you do when command breaks down.

And it's true, thought Valentine. I'm not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am, even as I write down the story of the world. And this world most of all.

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way

Matar es lo primero que aprendimos. E hicimos bien, o estaríamos muertos, y los tigres poseerían la Tierra.