Quotes About Adaptation

Sometimes it was best to make a change, and sometimes the only way to make a change was to be forced into it.

Beatrice," said Grandfather softly. "Don't really see how Beatrice can have a name when her mother doesn't have one." "I think her name is Beatrice's Mother," said Mama. "What kind of a name is that?" asked Grandfather. "It's what we've got," said Mama with a smile.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?

Control.... is not what we need. What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

When Anna went to school, English sounded to her like pebbles dropping into shallow water.

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes," said Marcel Proust.

By stabilizing things you defeat the point of the exercise. Stay with the uncertainty, please. Really, it's all about the struggle.

We make mistakes, sometimes whoppers. We correct them or we capitalize on them.

I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.

All animals must have the basic circuitry for self-care, or they will fail to survive long enough to reproduce. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, the range of myself was extended to include my babies .

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

Tu "mano a mano" ha sido acertado. -¿Te refieres a mi "mano a diente"? No te mentiré, me ha sentado bien. -TT. No has hecho más que ahorrarme problemas. Llevaba un tiempo medio suelto. -¿Medio suelto? ¿Por alguna pelea? -No. -Entonces, ¿qué? Tío. No me digas que aún tienes... ¿dientes de leche? -La dentición temporal de los humanos...

In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application elsewhere. Concepts developed purely for philosophy of mathematics turned out to be just what you needed to build a computer. Statistical formulae for understanding genetic change in biology are now applied in both economics and in programming.

What the hell are we supposed to do!" Nixon exploded in exasperation. "Paint our asses white and run with the antelopes!

I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless. I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.

Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?

So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom. What I needed was a new plan.

Gather No moss you rolling stones. Nothing thought out atones For no flight In the light.

The Oxford Plaza Apartments building, located at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was torn down. All the former residents had to find new homes.

People don't enter conversations, work or social, with the same intentions. You must understand and cater to that.

Human beings are not very imaginative nor creative, so we try to put all our experiences into existing templates and categories based on our previous experiences.

Put your sails up and prepare them for action, but recognize that the wind will blow when it chooses to, not when you want it to.