Quotes About Adaptation

The goal is not to destroy technology in some neo-Luddite delusion but to push technology into a hypertrophic state, further than it is meant to go. (...) We must scale up, not unplug. Then, during the passage of technology into this injured, engorged, and unguarded condition, it will be sculpted anew into something better, something in closer agreement with the real wants and desires of its users.

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.

This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.

It should not be possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible. The shock is too much, the contrast too raw. We should sail or swim or walk from Africa, letting bits of her drop out of us, and gradually, in this way, assimilate the excesses and liberties of the States in tiny, incremental sips.... p 72

It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible.

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived—to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that—this doubtless is the right way to live. HENRY JAMES T

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. It is best to bear what can't be altered. SENECA

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I tell myself and the officers I train the LANFWM principle, which is, Life Ain't No Fucking Western Movie.

It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living have been adopted because they are easy and pleasant. Indeed, they differ profoundly from those of our ancestors and of the human groups which have so far resisted industrial civilization. We do not know, as yet, whither they are better or worse.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.

Like autumn leaves, bad days fell away as though the genius of the room could not retain them.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.