Quotes About Adaptation

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Just because something's always happened in the past doesn't mean it will definitely happen in the future.

We are constantly "knitting" ourselves from people and situations that we encounter, through the words we exchange and the feelings that arise. We might feel that if one "stitch" is dropped, our lives will unravel. In fact, "if just one stitch holds, we can start all over again.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Nature finds the same solution to many different problems, like how to drain water from the land into the oceans, and how to get blood from our hearts to our fingertips and back again. And the templates that nature uses are fractals. Clouds look the same at all scales. It is impossible to determine the size of a cloud from a photograph of it.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.

the average Russian peasant remains active and willing (rather than lazy) only so long as he wears a shirt and a peasant's smock; but that as soon as ever he finds himself put into a German tailcoat, he becomes awkward, sluggish, indolent, disinclined to change his vest or take a bath, fond of sleeping in his clothes, and certain to breed fleas and bugs under the German apparel.

in short, I sensed in myself those strange feelings that come over us when for the first time we enter the dwelling of a widower whom we had known before inseparable from his lifelong companion. These feelings are like seeing before us a man we had always known in good health, now lacking a leg.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nothing in life unfolds the way you think it will, does it?

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

This is who we had become by then, people who gathered in the rain, arguing over whether or not they were getting wet.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.