Quotes About Adaptation

To change yourself means to change the future.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Se eu me confirmar e me considerar verdadeira, estarei perdida porque não saberei onde engastar meu novo modo de ser - se eu for adiante nas minhas visões fragmentárias, o mundo inteiro terá que se transformar para eu caber nele.

Me acostumbro pero no me amanso.

since she wasn't a sad person, she tried to go on as if she hadn't lost anything.

We are all deformed by our adaptation to the freedom of God.

Remove its frame or the lines of its edges, and it grows like spilling water.

In the chapter on the force of gravity, in elementary school, she'd invented a man with a funny disease. The force of gravity didn't work on him...So he'd fall off the earth, and keep falling evermore, because she didn't know how to give him a destiny. Where was he falling? Later she figured it out: he kept falling, falling and got used to it, eventually learning how to eat falling, sleep falling, live falling, until he died. And would he keep falling?

Esperar menos não significa desistir. Antes se surpreender, do que se decepcionar.

I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if I'll have another one to replace the lost one with. I know that I'll need to take care not to surreptitiously use a new third leg that can grow back in me as easily as a weed, and then call that protective leg "a truth".

Yes, she would explain to neither of them that everything was slowly changing... That she had put away her smile like one who has finally turned off the lamp and decided to go to bed. Now no living thing was allowed in her inner self, merging into it. The way she related to people was becoming increasingly different to the way she related to herself.

I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I'd lost a third leg that up until then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod… I know I can only walk with two legs. But I feel the useless absence of that third leg and it scares me, it was the leg that made me something findable by myself, and without even having to look for myself.

I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And even after you step on them they come apart slowly and keep on walking all the while. Even when they freeze, after they thaw out they keep on going. For three hundred and fifty million years, they have reproduced with no change. When the world was practically naked, they walked slowly across it.

I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

kültürel çeÅŸitlilik olgusu yads?n?r; yaÅŸam?m?z? düzenleyen normlara uymayan ne varsa kültürün d???na, doÄŸaya at?lmas? yeÄŸlenir.

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Life isn't about waiting on the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.