Quotes About Adaptation

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

We must change in order to survive.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

I change by not changing at all.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

compensating mechanism for an apparent loss

Es así. El ser humano se acostumbra a todo. Si todos los días le dan una cucharada de mierda, primero hace arqueadas, después él mismo pide ansiosamente su cucharada de mierda y hace trampas para comer dos cucharadas y no una sola.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

La guitarra siempre me quedó grande, me sonaban sucios los acordes, demasiadas cuerdas para tener en cuenta, demasiadas notas en ese puente. Para un autodidacta, para el que toca de oído como yo, el ukelele es ideal. Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Lo bueno del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia. Lo malo del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia.

Children of mothers who are only sometimes available and who aren't reliably attuned adapt by being ambivalently attached. Because they don't know what to expect—is she going to be the nice mommy or the yelling one?—these children develop anxiety and insecurity about the maternal relationship and, as adults, a sense of all relationships as being essentially unreliable.

Just as in Hollywood, what matters most is not the movie you made twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even just a couple of years ago, it's the one you made most recently that counts. You need to be constantly refueling your brag campaign to reflect changes in your circumstances and audience.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they're great.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Marriages don't stay in neat, tidy shapes you know; they sprawl about, very messily sometimes. The important thing is not to let them get out of control.

O que importa é mudar a ovalidade do mundo sem dele fugir.

But what I found out that summer . . . was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.

Did state troopers shift their pistols from hip to hip to avoid becoming lopsided?