Quotes About Adaptation

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Come now, Olivia, where's your sense of humor?" Jack asked. "It made a hasty departure when you entered my life.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

We don't sign here, of course. We want to prepare these children to enter the normal world." She believed that.

By the age of two, hearing children perceived their parents' deafness well enough to know automatically that they must use gestures with their parents and other deaf people. If the children talked at all, their voices had an unusual quality and they exaggerated their mouth movements. These same children immediately shifted gears, speaking in "normal" voices, with hearing people.

Having hearing children meant they had to come into contact with hearing people even more frequently than they would have otherwise—hearing teachers and scout leaders wouldn't have been such a part of their lives.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

El humor, los sentimientos, las ideas y las creencias cambian. Las relaciones, las carreras, las reglas e incluso las personas cambian. Los ciclos de nacimiento, vida y muerte en el ámbito humano y en el resto de la naturaleza están regidos por el cambio. Las estaciones, el clima y la evolución de nuestro planeta son siempre fruto del cambio.

push its own stomach out through its mouth and into the shell. After digesting the animal, the starfish then slides its stomach back into its own body. That sounds like something out of an alien movie!

eye at the end of each arm. But the starfish doesn't have an actual brain to tell it what it's seeing. Instead, nerves run from its mouth to each of its eyes, and sensors in its many tubelike "feet" actually find food. So the starfish is perfectly able to move and eat and do all that it needs to live, but it can't think. The starfish can't "see" what path it should take—it just goes where its body tells it to go.

It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

I had come to a new way of thinking about time. It's not the hard and fixed thing we imagine it to be, no, it's something soft and pleated, and under extreme pressure, it folds

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Jak mawia? Swami Bodhidharma: "nie mo?esz mie? ?adnej nowej rzeczy, dopóki nie pozb?dziesz si? starych rzeczy". Innymi s?owy, kiedy nic ci nie idzie, mo?e nale?y spojrze? na dany problem z innej strony.

Je?li wam to pomo?e, to uprzedzenia s? rzecz? nabyt?. Zwi?zane s? z kultur?, w jakiej dany cz?owiek zosta? wychowany. Nauczy?e? si? ich jak tabliczki mno?enia. Oznacza to, ?e teraz mo?esz si? ich oduczy?.

In listening to our clients, we reflexively analyze their narratives for inaccurate, destructive, and missing elements. We then attempt to edit their narratives in a manner we feel would better support their adaptation and wellbeing.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

That which is man-made can be unmade.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

and just as the first Imagineers adopted techniques and practices from animation and movie-making to develop the craft of Imagineering, we can borrow (and steal) principles, practices, and processes from Imagineering and apply them in other creative endeavors.

It is an iterative process that goes something like this: * Screen it * Discuss it * Get the feeling that you don't know what you're doing * Weep openly * Tear it apart * Correct it * Re-board it * Rebuild it * Screen it again * Repeat as necessary