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Quotes About Adaptation

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
~ Umberto Eco
Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.
~ Tupac Shakur
Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
~ Chance The Rapper
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
~ Kenneth Oppel
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
~ Charles Kettering
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
~ Judi Dench
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
~ Stephen Hawking
That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.
~ Pema Chodron
We fail to see that like the weather, we are fluid, not solid.
~ Pema Chodron
The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again.
~ Pema Chodron
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.
~ Pema Chodron
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.
~ Pema Chodron
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
~ Pema Chodron
Change your attitude, but remain natural.
~ Pema Chodron
relax gradually and wholeheartedly into the ordinary and obvious truth of change.
~ Pema Chodron
Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.
~ Unknown
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news." – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
~ Pema Chodron
I'm afraid I'm not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.' 'Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they'll adapt little by little.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
La docilidad no es lo mismo que la amabilidad. S personalidad líquida iba tanteando el terreno, y se introducía sigilosamente por los puntos más vulnerables de los demás hasta encontrar un lugar apropiado en el que instalarse y sacar de él el máximo provecho.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.
~ Penelope Leach
That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely
~ Penelope Lively
That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive.
~ Penelope Lively
time marches on, as children grow and develop and mutate, as adults accommodate or fester or rejoice.
~ Penelope Lively
I'm afraid I can't do the things you want me to do because people don't go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don't think they'd be very interested.
~ Penelope Lively