Quotes About Adaptation

That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But you don't believe them.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home.

As immigrants fly across oceans they shed their old clothing because clothes maketh the man and new ones help ease the transition. Men's clothing has less international variations; the change is not so drastic. But those women who are not used to wearing western clothes find themselves in a dilemma. If they focus on integration, convenience and conformity they have to sacrifice habit, style and self-perception.

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home. Pull up your shallow roots and move. Find a new place, new friends, a new family. It had been possible once, it would be possible again.

The immigrant who comes as a wife has a more difficult time. If work exists for her, it is in the future and after much finding of feet. At present all she is, is a wife, and a wife is alone for many, many hours. There will come a day when even books are powerless to distract. When the house and its conveniences can no longer completely charm or compensate. Then she realizes she is an immigrant for life.

Perhaps that was the ultimate immigrant experience. Not that any one thing was steady enough to attach yourself to for the rest of your life, but that you found different ways to belong, ways not necessarily lasting, but ones that made your journey less lonely for a while. When something failed it was a signal to move on. For an immigrant there was no going back.

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

especially as the freshness of new initiatives gave way to the inevitability of routine.

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.

Capture what's given to you but strive for what is not.

Si crees que debe hacerse, lo haces; si no marcha como debiera, bueno, que te sirva de experiencia, pero nunca pienses que se trata de un fracaso.

Si la verdad no puede ser contada, arréglala para que se pueda».

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.