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Quotes About Adaptation

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
~ Donna Tartt
It was interesting to see the change that came over Boris when he was speaking another language—a sort of livening, or alertness, a sense of a different and more efficient person occupying his body.
~ Donna Tartt
but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.
~ Donna Tartt
Bad artists copy, good artists steal.
~ Donna Tartt
he said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along
~ Donna Tartt
One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.
~ Donna Tartt
Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?
~ Donna Tartt
loose tendons; dance world's loss; performance art's gain
~ Donna Tartt
Never judge a book by its movie.
~ Unknown
The useless men are those who never change with the years.
~ J.M. Barrie
It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
~ J.P. Vaswani
Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.
~ Unknown
Keel on kompromiss, et kirjeldada piiratud arvu märkidega lõputult muutlikku maailma.
~ Unknown
If you don't like who you are, then change who you are!" Kira told him. "If we can keep from being caught you'll have a chance to learn how to do other things.
~ Jack Campbell
Change," Jason said. "It hurts, but it has to be, and it gives us new things." Kira turned her smile on him. "Why do you say you're not smart? Jason, you have great ideas.
~ Jack Campbell
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience…. When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. BRIAN ADAMS
~ Jack Canfield
Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.
~ Jack Canfield
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
~ Jack Canfield
Embrace Change Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY Thirty-fifth president of the United States
~ Jack Canfield
I have learned over the years that whenever one door seemingly closes, another door opens. You just have to keep positive, stay aware, and look to see what it is. Instead of getting upset when things don't unfold as you anticipated, always ask yourself the question "What's the possibility that this is?
~ Jack Canfield
it takes repetitive exposure over time to a new idea before that idea becomes a natural part of your way of thinking and being.
~ Jack Canfield
Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. -Credited to Ms. Rose Written by Dan Clark
~ Jack Canfield
If You Keep on Doing What You've Always Done, You'll Keep on Getting What You've Always Got
~ Jack Canfield