Quotes About Adaptation

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

In a significant number of cases, people actually get worse at their jobs over time. "More

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won't have anything to complain about.

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

You believe it's cold, but if you build yourself a snowhouse it's warm. You think it's white, but at times it looks pink, and another time it's blue. It can be softer than anything, and then again harder than stone. Nothing is certain.

In my opinion, one should always make the most out of an awful situation

When you were small you wanted to know. Now you want to become. I want to do.

Minähän koen joka päivä maailmanlopun ja kuitenkin pukeudun ja riisuudun ja syön ja pesen astioita ja pidän teekutsuja aivan kuin mitään ei olisi tapahtunut!

What is constantly changing is superior to what is static. The Hothouse

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

When you're in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

changes to come.

I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way. I want to see their lives bettered as much as anyone, but who says we have somehow arrived at the perfect way to live? Especially for specific areas of the world?

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

Life does not turn out the way it "should." Nor does life turn out the way it "shouldn't." Life turns out the way it does.

Every human being has his or her own Winning Strategy—a Strategy for winning the games of life, for "making it" in life—or even for surviving in life.