Quotes About Adaptation

plans are all well and good in the Summer, but in the Winter it's wise to simply have an objective.' 'I thought we were meant to make a plan and stick to it?' 'Events move fast,' he said, 'and you need on-the-hoof flexibility to ensure the plan doesn't get in the way of the goal.' It actually seemed like quite good advice.

Mind you, if we we're talking about regeneration, we could go a step further and take a leaf out of the sponge book. There are sponges you can chop to pieces, whiz up in the blender, and then press through a sieve, but they'll still regenerate. Useful, maybe, I replied, but I think there is a limit to the amount of fun you could have as a sponge.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." I

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.

Their father, Polonius, was in a 'have a go' mood and joined in. He also made changes, and together they renamed it: The Tragedy of the Very Witty and Not Remotely Boring Polonius, Father of the Noble Laertes, Who Avenges His Fair Sister, Ophelia, Driven Mad by the Callous, Murderous and Outrageously Disrespectful Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "What was it like?" "With Polonius? Very . . . wordy.

cats aren't really friendly; they're just cozying up to the dominant life form as a hedge against extinction.

She] used to...insist that puddings at St Granata's be randomly laced with curry powder to 'better prepare us for life's inevitable disappointments.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

All jobs are temporary in the new economy—henceforth you always need to be looking for the next opportunity.

It's not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, that survive; it's the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.

It's amazing what human beings get accustomed to—how quickly the bizarre, the absurd and the perverse can become routine. People have become accustomed to torture, or so I've read, bonded with their tormentors, the wielders of pliers and electricity. It happens gradually. Maybe one day you get high with another couple and there's a certain amount of joking and talk, and the next thing you know, the guy's making out with your wife and you're kind

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There can be no true definition of normal because life is ever-changing.

They said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

One can't stop change. The best thing one can do is manage it so that one doesn't get crushed by it.

Sounds like the classic definition of insanity, doesn't it? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

You're not quite what I had in mind," she said. "What?" "I was thinking of getting a cat.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

There is no such thing as closure as far as I'm concerned." Julius tossed the contents of another egg into the bowl. "Things are what they are. You deal with reality and move on.

Maybe his worst nightmare had finally become his new reality.