Quotes About Adaptation

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

La lingua è cosa viva e come tutte le cose vive deve vedersela con larealtà.

I've learned and unlearned all my life; it's helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There's an art in letting go.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can't, there's only yesterday.

There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does -- maybe more.

Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Everything changed for the machines.

Some things happened and some other things didn't, and at one point I found I'd gone to a place where I married Jascha. Pyotr Frankis had been right: life was funny. It was also reasonably good and so was the relationship. And after the divorce, I got a job.

Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading

Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you're got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is

How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

All those square-jawed heroes of the old science fiction stories had it wrong. You can't save the world as we know it. I did what I could, and I did some good in the world. But you can't save the world without changing it.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

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Patricia B. McConnell

As a matter of fact, the universal tendency of adult domestic dogs to bark is one of the many behavioral markers that suggests that adult dogs are actually a juvenilized version of adult wolves.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.