Quotes About Adaptation

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else."-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17

When there is little you can do, you do what you can.

The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.

A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

The ability to accept and adapt gracefully to life's twists and turns is one of the greatest skills you'll learn. Should you plan for the things you want? Absolutely. But if you're not exactly where you wanted to be, exactly when you wanted to be there, don't sweat it.

It is only when a traveler has reached his goal that he is justified in discarding his maps. During the journey, he takes advantage of any convenient short cut.

Is the whole world going to change for you? Change yourself:

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

Our inference systems may be there because they provide solutions to problems that were recurrent in normal human environments for hundred of thousands of years.

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

my middle-class background had not prepared me for life without scented toilet paper.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere.

You react to crisis the right way. You remember what Toynbee says? His theory of challenge and response applies not only to nations, but to individuals. Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

When first we met, I thought you foolish, inept, and too gullible to work for the Master of the City. But you have grown shrewd, crafty as a cat in your dealings with the Mithrans." It didn't sound like a compliment but I didn't react.

He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself.

And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with my neuroses. I'll try to develop patience, with my handicapped personality. But I prefer to live with my neuroses and try to make the best of them.

Every failure teaches something. 12

I'm still an old pearl in a new oyster.

Instead of teaching the kids to be weapons, we should be teaching them how to help people with their gifts. Or just how to survive without looking like freaks. But we have no instruction books.