Quotes About Adaptation

Mary Lynn Manns

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

In his Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust would model his Baron de Charlus on Montesquiou, just as he would base the Princess Yourbeletieff and Madame Verdurin on Misia, the actress Berma on Sarah Bernhardt, and elements of the character of Bergotte on Prince Edmond de Polignac (although more on Anatole France).

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.

We ended up in America by default, so it'll never really be our home.

THE TAHITIANS don't have a word that means "art." The closest expression in their language translates to something like "I'm doing the best I can." Ever since I heard this it has become a kind of mantra to me. I try and apply it to my own work, to my students and anyone who shares his or her work with me. If we live with the idea of perfection, we will never do anything. The notion paralyzes us, but doing the best we can, this is possible. I

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Principles are underlying truths that don't change over time or space, while practices are the application of principles to a particular situation.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.

Start with the valid constraints of the system, and then design the system to fit within those constraints.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

It almost seems un-American, at times, to have kids who are slow to warm up. Other people tell us to push them—to force them to jump in—and they reprimand us for babying them. When your child adapts slowly, remind yourself that you will appreciate it when he is an adolescent. While all the other kids are running off on some ridiculous impulsive venture, yours will be thinking, moving slowly and cautiously. There are strengths to every temperamental characteristic.

Understanding how your child reacts to transitions and changes is a key to winning his cooperation. If your child is slow to adapt, you need to know it so you can help him prepare.

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