Quotes About Adaptation

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about.

There was no fair way to compare what had been with what might have been. He just had to find a way forward.

You can't always pick where you fight, or who you fight...or even...how you fight. But do the picking...whenever you can.

Sebagai sahabat yang lebih tua, Amerika bisa memberi kami nasihat. Tetapi jangan mencampuri urusan kami. Kami telah melihat pelaksanaan kapitalisme dan demokrasi Barat melalui bangsa Belanda. Kami tidak ingin menerapkan sistem itu. Biarkan kami berkembang dengan satu metode baru yang sesuai dengan kepribadian kami. Itu bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa diekspor, tetapu sebaliknya kami juga tidak akan mengimpor doktrin-doktrin yang tidak sesuai untuk kami.

Satu bangsa yang berusaha mempertahankan kehidupannya harus menerima bantuan dari segala pihak, menerima segala apa yang bermanfaat dan membuang sisanya.

That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan.

In surfing, and maybe even in life, the trick is to use the calm between the waves to position yourself for the next one.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

You never know what you're going to get with a pinball game," John said. "It's a lot like life. You can't control it, so you have to just roll with it and do the best you can. And if you do well enough, sometimes you get a bonus play.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Are you a degenerate, Fisher?" "I'm working on it.

Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Then you fail. And you try again. You keep at it, despite failing, or because of failing, if that makes sense. It's like creating that perfect recipe. You rework and rework and rework it until you get it right.

Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.