Quotes About Adaptation

It's hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.

My mind and I had a meeting, and we came to the conclusion that you're going to let us down. We are here every minute of the day getting ready for the let down. So when you push me away, I'll just say ok, because we came to that conclusion a while ago. Like I said, we were ready for the let down.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

There are no birds in last year's nest

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

Yung man, don't grind yure scythe all on one side!

Such was life; everything passed away; the fields and woodlands of boyhood became built upon; streets and pavements and lamp posts arose where warblers and willow wrens had sung; nothing ever remained the same.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.

If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more reasonable, but because it suited his manner of life better.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

If we're laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you've a tree that's stood for centuries in the very spot. . . . Old and gnarled it may be, and yet you don't cut down the old fellow to make room for the flowerbeds, but lay out your beds so as to take advantage of the tree. You won't grow him again in a year . . .

and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more!

But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar's fathers and grandfathers, almost without knowing it, became themselves a rude part of it. They married Yakut women, and adopted the language and customs of their wives, their own features of the Russian race to which they belonged becoming obliterated and fading altogether with time.

?nsano?lunun al??amayaca?? ko?ul yoktur, hele de çevresindeki herkesin ayn? ko?ullarda ya?ad???n? görüyorsa.

No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.

As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagination, though he had long known that Moscow would be abandoned, he knew it only with his intellect, he did not believe it in his heart and did not adapt himself mentally to this new position of affairs.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.