Quotes About Adaptation

The rigid never grow. They tend to do things the same way they've always done them.

Be conscious of all of your thoughts, changing them midstream if necessary.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Do not resist the natural course of your life.

Of birds I know that they have wings to fly with, of fish that they have fins to swim with, of wild beasts that they have feet to run with. For feet there are traps

Move from wanting to see permanence in your life to realizing that all things change due to the nature of this being an ever-modifying world.

When you change the way you process the world, the world you're processing changes.

Keep track of situations that occur spontaneously or out of the realm of your control.

You see, progress cannot happen if you always do things the way you've always done them. As long as you are willing to stay as you are or to stick with the familiar or never try out anything new, then it is by definition impossible to grow.

Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

Maybe that's what happens if you get comfortable someplace. Maybe you need some motivation to move on. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it's not just being comfortable. Maybe it's being used to. A place can be very uncomfortable, but if you're used to it, it gives you a strange sense of comfort. Did that make any sense? For example, why do people stay in places on jobs or relationships that they hate? Why don't they just leave? Because they're used to it, that's why.

You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new.

CHAPTER 12 Mom and Dad Boot Up

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

A man ought to study the wilderness of a place before applying to it the ways he learned in another place.

Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Instead of the fellow everyone had always been so fond of—friendly, social, good company, bright, lively—he had developed into a crafty sly masquerader, artful and elusive, presenting a front so different from his real self that they pretended to believe out of sheer embarrassment, as much to save his face as their own.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Krauthammer