Quotes About Adaptation

Starflight had to sit down and fold his wings over his head for a minute.

And we can get used to anything as long as we're together, right? That's what's important?

hold their breath for up to an hour,

Deathbringer had found his night vision growing stronger the longer he was away from the Night Kingdom.

You cannot have a SeaWing as queen of the RainWings. Tsunami, quit that.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one

Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly" is

teams should commit to doing Daily Check-ins for a set period of time—perhaps two months—before evaluating whether or not they are working.

Celebrate your mistakes.

She then recovered her wits and averting her eyes from the wreck of her house she shook Babbington's hand, embraced Stephen tenderly, greeted all the officers, young gentlemen and seamen she knew, and said she would not get in their way - would go and sort her baggage and draw breath in one of the loose-boxes: there was nothing she preferred to a really commodious loose-box.

You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling strangles, there - no longer a social being at all. It is no doubt the effect of the long-continued habit of command; but it cannot be considered amiable.

It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living men, speak when they are alone together. 'She has forgotten the distinction between what can and what cannot be said,' he reflected. 'A few more years of this company, and she would not scruple to fart.

I dare say they are hauling away the cat before hooking on the fish.' Pocock said, 'Perhaps they will stopper with a dog.' Stephen said, 'It is my belief that they have raised a mouse, and that having seized it with a fox they will clap on a lizard.

men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them

Sailors were as conservative as cats, as he knew very well: they would put up with incredible labour and hardship, to say nothing of danger, but it had to be what they were used to or they would grow brutish.

I have seized upon documents, poems, letters; in short, j'ai pris mon bien là où je l'ai trouvé, and within a context of general historical accuracy I have changed names, places and minor events to suit my tale.

and in less time than he had ever known a woman take to dress she was back in a travelling habit and a broad-brimmed veiled hat.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

The times make those who live in them

One of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.