Quotes About Adaptation

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?

we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.

Among the smaller gentry his London experience stood him in good stead;

It is hard to explain, for 'tis more than a gap. Or it has been with us. There is a change. Nothing hasn't been the same since. Those who are left are different people trying to live the same lives.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Those who never change their minds, never change anything.

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

change is the best kind of rest.

The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.

It is a joke in Britain to say that the War Office is always preparing for the last war. But this is probably true of other departments and of other countries, and it was certainly true of the French Army.

Success is never final.

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

The problems of the second year of war must be dealt with by the experience of the first year of war. The problems of the third year of war must be met by results observed and understood in the second, and so on.

Uganda is defended by its insects.

Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and above all the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men's brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands….

Yo estaba acostumbrado desde hacia ya mucho tiempo a escribir todas mis notas con tinta encarnada; Fisher empleaba corrientemente un lápiz verde. Cito sus palabras: «Eran las luces de babor y estribor». En tanto estas brillaran juntas, todo iría bien. Habíamos montado una combinación, que en tanto subsistiera, no podía ser vencida ni por intrigas interiores ni por el enemigo en el mar.