Quotes About Adaptation

Anthony Durnford was a fish out of water, both in terms of experience and, even more importantly, in the closely interlinked fields of judgement and temperament.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

softening the hard ground for the coming

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

The metric system ruined me.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

He lives all alone now, in the home they bought, and finally seems to be managing, more or less. Not the way he was, of course, with her, who lives alone now, too, at the same address. - Separatio in Loco

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

You must embrace failure

A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.

And this is something Solomon must understand. We can be deported. We have no motherland. Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That's all I ever hear.

Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt.

Life is full of things he cannot control so he must adapt. My boy has to survive.

It's my job to know what others don't. How did you know to make kimchi and sell it on a street corner to earn money? You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't. Now, I'm telling you something valuable.

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he lheard these words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Pachinko, p456

It was as if a warm room had gotten cooler, but it was still the same room.