Quotes About Adaptation

Its hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

There is nothing wrong with change...if it is in the right direction.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

People change and forget to tell each other.

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

Never swap horses crossing a stream

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Dac? nu exist? ferestre, ele trebuie inventate.

C?r?bu?ii au o groaz? de picioare, dar când se r?stoarn? pe spate nu mai pot s?-?i revin?, sunt ca ?i pe lumea cealalt?. Poate ar trebui s? aib? o parte din picioare pe spate. S?-?i distribuie mai ra?ional picioarele.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

You know how many friends become enemies and how many enemies become friends -- it's just changing all the time. So many people presume you are something, then they meet you and become proper friends, and the ones who really knew you can't stand it, for whatever reason.

When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was.

So often, as writers, we keep pressing ourselves against a wall. We know we're stuck. We know this direction isn't working. But stubbornness and pride keep us pushing in the same direction. In backing away from our original plan, we must have faith that the essence is there, but some radical departure must take place.--Writer's Digest

Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.

Si soy incapaz de trascender mi pasado, es difícil que pueda inventar un futuro que no sea directamente predecible desde el pasado

Grandes barbaridades hemos hecho las personas en nuestro intento de adaptar la realidad a las medidas de nuestro recipiente mental.

Hemos de entender que el cerebro es enormemente plástico y maleable y que la cultura en la que vivimos puede favorecer más el dominio de uno de los hemisferios o incluso favorecer que trabajen de una forma más integrada.

Una cosa es entender intelectualmente la necesidad de cambiar y otra muy distinta es sentirse cómodo e ilusionado con dicho cambio.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Cuando creíamos que teníamos todas las respuestas, de pronto, cambiaron todas las preguntas

El único consuelo es entrar en el caos, volverse caótico también

Tratar de asimilar un país que no es el mismo, y sobre todo comprender por qué yo tampoco soy el mismo.

Lo que en un ambiente es simplemente honrado, en otro puede ser simplemente imbécil.

El trayecto de mi identidad supone que he cambiado, pero la regularidad del cambio demuestra que soy el mismo.