Quotes About Adaptation

Ti-ai pus vreodata intrebarea de ce evolutia speciilor si-a dat atata osteneala sa ajunga la aceasta infinita diversitate de forme si dimensiuni? Asta ti se pare tot o inutila punere in scena?

Eram prea necopt ca s? ?tiu c? cinismul de orice fel este o masc? pentru neputin?a de adaptare - pe scurt, un fel de impoten?? ?i c? a dispre?ui orice fel de efort este cel mai mare efort.

Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi kabullenmek gerekiyordu. Ama evrim yasalar?n?n bu kadar büyük bir duyars?zl?kla, bu kadar büyük bir sakarl???n ayn? zihinde var olmas?na izin verdiÄŸi düÅŸüncesi beni ç?lg?na çeviriyordu. Egom kapana k?st?r?lm?? bir tavÅŸan gibi c?yak c?yak ba??r?yordu.

Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.

When men and women are single for a long time, the differences are sometimes not as defined.

Both men and women need to stop offering the method of caring they would prefer and start to learn the different ways their partners think, feel, and react.

The important point here is that to enrich our relationships we need to make little changes. Big changes generally require some suppression of who we truly are.

Being around new and different people always brings out some new part of who you are.

You cannot, nor should you ever try to, change your partner. That is his or her job. Your job is to change the ways you communicate, react, and respond to your partner

Increasing tolerance for our differences does not mean passive acceptance of a problematic or passionless relationship. Instead, this healthy adaptation is based on real insight that helps us to understand our partners better and respond in ways that are more loving and will inspire the best in them.

They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.

Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.

The children learned English, taught it to their parents, and rarely spoke the mother tongues at home.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other

had been the marigold turning to face the sun.

The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture.

God's process of revelation required that he condescend to us, that he accommodate our humanity, that he express himself in familiar language and metaphors. It should be no surprise then that many of the common elements of the culture of the day were adopted, at times adapted, at times totally converted or transformed, but nevertheless used to accomplish God's purposes.

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

Only a change in our way of life would heal the sickness of our age — and this is only likely to happen when disaster confronts us.

Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.

En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces.

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I