Quotes About Adaptation

Life is like a Rubik's cube...sometimes ya gotta mess it up to make it better.

You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

You can't change what has already happened so don't waste your time thinking about it. Move on, let go and get over it.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Don't be predictable. Be a change every time.

Just because those around you have changed, doesn't mean you need to.

Don't ever change for someone who is not willing to change anything about them for you.

The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.

As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live, most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Curaram-no. Mas logo que deixou de ser louco, tornou-se idiota.

Hayat?m?z?n ikinci bölümünde aç??a vurdu?umuz mizac?m?z, ço?unlukla öyle olsa bile, her zaman ba?lang?çtaki mizac?m?z?n geli?mi? veya solmu?, güçlenmi? veya yumu?am?? ?ekli de?ildir; bazen de tamamen z?t bir mizaç, adeta tersyüz edilmi? bir giysidir.

And since Habit, among all the plants that grow in human beings, is the one that has least need of nutritious soil in order to live, the first to appear on the most apparently arid rock, had he begun by treating the rupture as a pretense, he might eventually have become genuinely accustomed to it.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Je fis comme eux avec cet air naturel d'un libre-penseur dans une église, lequel ne connaît pas la messe, mais se lève quand tout le monde se lève et se met à genoux un peu après que tout le monde s'est mis à genoux.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, I understand all that," with a precision and a tone of intelligence which for some time deceived me; but other people, as we get to know them, are like a metal dipped in an acid bath, and we see them gradually lose their good qualities (and their bad qualities too, at times

In the course of a campaign, if it is at all long, you will see one belligerent profiting by the lessons furnished him by the successes and mistakes, perfecting the methods of the other, who will improve on him in turn. But all that is a thing of the past. With the terrible advance of artillery, the wars of the future, if there are to be any more wars, will be so short that, before we have had time to think of putting our lessons into practice, peace will have been signed.

Al??kanl?k! Zihnimizin haftalar boyunca geçici bir düzende azap çekmesine göz yuman al??kanl?k, ama o olmasa, kendi imkanlar?yla s?n?rl? kalan zihnimizin bize içinde ya?anabilecek bir bar?nak sunamayaca?? için, her ?eye ra?men buldu?u zaman sevindi?i, o becerikli ama a??rkanl? düzenliyici!

one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting;

but other people, as we get to know them, are like a metal dipped in an acid bath, and we see them gradually lose their good qualities (and their bad qualities too, at times).

We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change.

It is necessary to adapt oneself to the enemy's latest formula so as to defend oneself against him; then he starts a fresh innovation and yet, as in other human things, the old tricks always come off.

until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought