Quotes About Adaptation

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.

So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us can be kept; but as soon as the situation changes, habit ceases and the natural returns. Education is certainly only habit. Now are there not people who forget and lose their education? Others who keep it? Where does this difference come from? If the name nature were limited to habits conformable to nature, we would spare ourselves this garble!

Si queremos formar una institución duradera, no pensemos en hacerla eterna

y yo me adapto tan fácilmente a un método de vida, cuando es voluntario, que sólo hubiera deseado que éste durase siempre.

veo un animal menos fuerte que unos, menos ágil que otros, pero, en conjunto, el más ventajosamente organizado de todos;

What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father

People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, though . . . that's more the point, wouldn't you say?

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard.

From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place.

What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard.

Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I shall have to get used all over again to speaking to people without touching them.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.