Quotes About Adaptation

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Chance decided my fate and the path my life took, and most often I was faced with a fait accompli, and fell into one of the possible currents; only a different chance could cast me into another. You could neither avoid it nor refuse it. It was yours, like the water you fell into. And you'd either sink or swim.

A izgledao sam miran. Na to se ?ovjek navikne.

Autrefois tu pensais comme moi, ou presque, comme nous tous. Il n'est pas facile de se transformer, il faut rejeter tout ce que l'on a été, ce que l'on a appris et acquis, toutes ses habitudes. Mais toi tu t'es transformé, entièrement. C'est comme si tu avais réappris à marcher, à balbutier tes premières paroles, à te créer de nouvelles habitudes. La raison devait être très importante.

Transformation does not happen by learning new information. It happens when you change how you view and react to other people, events and things around you.

Transformation does not happen by learning new information. It happens with the formation of new thinking patterns and new behavioral habits.

You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position.

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

All that heartbreak? It got us here.

Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? no me puedo imaginar no tener palabras en las que refugiarme. Ser huérfana de lengua.

A vihar elÅ'tti csend pont jó kifejezésnek t?nt arra, ahogy akkor és ott beugrott: akármilyen boldog voltam is abban a percben, de az addigi életem hozzászoktatott, hogy a dolgok nem úgy alakulnak, mint a szabványos hollywoodi könnyvfakasztóban. A vak lányt nem az év Oscar-várományosa játssza, a nyomorék fiú nem kezd csodálatos módon járni, és nem vigyorogva megy haza a tömeg.

I should have liked this particular story to end with me settled happily ever after in the hut on the island, but it didn't happen. It wasn't long before I had to face the fact that I was living in the sea.

Gil me ha dicho que para traducir bien tienes que ser un camaleón, ponerte en la piel de otra persona, meterte en tu cabeza. He visto esa transformación en él; da la sensación de que sus rasgos, y a veces su personalidad, cambian con cada voz que adopta, con cada libro.

You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn't do it anymore. There wasn't much time.