Quotes About Adaptation

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.