Quotes About Adaptation

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.

The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime.

Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well.

Stop learning, start dying

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.

Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Charles Xavier.

Darwin always thought that it paid to be a quick learner. The war had simply made the penalty for not learning quite a bit steeper.

There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future. Why did I want this fight so badly?

What's that all about?" "Don't ask me," I told her. "I'm gay now.

Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well

My .38 had been lost in the battle with the gang of half-mad lycanthropes the year before, and I'd replaced it with a medium-barreled .357. I must have been feeling insecure that day, or something

Things fall apart.

I hate it when a plan falls apart.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

Florida for Transition

We might say, "My kids used to listen to me, but now they won't. Boy, have they ever changed." Wrong again. They haven't changed one iota. They're still listening to a voice outside their heads—it's just not ours anymore.