Quotes About Adaptation

Todo eso implica que los equipos de alto nivel están en continuo estado de evolución, y pobre del mánager que crea que algunos jugadores pueden durar para siempre. Mi

when you're managing change, you have to accept the quieter spells and acknowledge that transformations take longer than a year.

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

Negali sakyti, kad paž?sti vietov?, jeigu nežinai, kaip ji atrodo tiek žiem?, tiek vasar?, tiek pavasar?, tiek ruden?. Tas pats su žmon?mis.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Learn to think continentally.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things

I cannot make everybody else as rapid as myself.

Ideas that have outlived their day may hobble about the world for years, but it is hard for them ever to lead or dominate life. Such ideas never gain complete possession of a man, or they gain possession only of incomplete people.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Home had a new meaning now. Jago watched him, and was satisfied. Like

If being crazy means having a hard time adapting to the world as it is (a definition that I agree with), then society is crazy."1

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A prudent chief not always must display His pow'rs in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.