Quotes About Adaptation

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right.

With the coming of these people who know the language, we are losing our liberty to speak, he remarked to himself.

Darling, you fall in love all the time. You can't run away just because it doesn't fit into your exact romantic dreamworld, you know.

Respect the fact that all you do and are now, has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.

Change requires courage, but the failure to change does not signify the lack of it.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business, both for the one doing the changing and for those affected by the change. Often we fear that another person's move toward new ideas and experiences will create a gulf so wide that we will not be able to reach them.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can't make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.

Learning is finding. Finding is losing something else.

When women equate requesting a behavioral change with trying to teach the proverbial pig to sing, we don't strengthen our voice. Instead, we get sucked in by the latest research findings about how male and female brains are different, so men can't really be expected to pick up their socks. It feels easier to give up and adapt to unfair circumstances, despite the enormous long-term toll of making such accommodations.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

The librarians sent books to the hospitals. They answered a thousand questions put to them by the military and civil authorities: How could Leningrad make matches? How could flint and steel lighters be manufactured? What materials were needed for candles? Was there any way of making yeast, edible wood, artificial vitamins? How do you make soap? The librarians found recipes for candles in old works of the eighteenth century.

But there are few rules or unwritten laws that are not broken when circumstances demand,

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his "A" string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your "A" string snap and finish on three strings.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.