Quotes About Adaptation

I've been taking things too seriously for years,' I said. 'I'm afraid it makes me a difficult man to live with. But I've stayed alive, sweetheart. And that means a lot to me.

It was tempting to give it just a trace of water but he resisted the temptation – better that it was forced to adjust to its new environment. Too much care and attention could ruin it – it was a characteristic that cacti shared with agents in the field.

That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries.

Groups that use swarm intelligence need no leader, and they have no central planning. What,

we are trying to check out. The picture may be vague, or it may be very precise. Either way, every fresh result is something to be thought about and incorporated, either as reinforcement or as a step in a new direction. As more results come in the excitement builds, reaching a peak when quick calculations show that the results are going according to plan.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Why is sholem used for both "hello" and "good-bye"? Israelis say: "Because we have so many problems that half the time we don't know whether we're coming or going.

The great rabbis did not "create" Halakha: what the rabbis did was to codify and clarify the legal teachings, adapting them to changing social conditions. "The Rabbinic Halakha," writes Judah Goldin, "protected legislation from inflexibility and society from fundamentalism

Yiddish is the Robin Hood of languages. It steals from the linguistically rich to give to the fledgling poor. It shows not the slightest hesitation in taking in house-guests—to whom it gives free room and board regardless of genealogy, faith, or exoticism. A memorable remark by a journalist, Charles Rappaport, runs: "I speak ten languages—all of them in Yiddish.

in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork. —The Merchant of Venice, act III, scene

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

your life." "You mean my life without Kimi? Or you mean my life as a

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.