Quotes About Adaptation

Powersnoop," as one of my wry young patients calls it,

You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent if his doom.

Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.

would miss them when they were gone, I knew. But I would find something else for him. I would help him forget. I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—

you can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ~ Odysseus

That is how things go. You fix them, and they go awry, and then you fix them again.

In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity

In every contact with every other human in every day of your life, you become what you sense they want of you or, if you are motivated the other way, exactly what they do not want.

And it was okay because it had to be. There wasn't any other choice. Sometimes it is a relief not to have a choice. I will have to get Meyer to explain this concept to me.

That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe.

For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

He is the same, but everything is different.

I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.

Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.