Quotes About Adaptation

No one gets the best spot all the time—they have to compromise.

She got off at the train station, the final stop, but in the station saw neither signs nor people. She sat on a cold bench in the waiting room, listening. She was starting to wonder if this was really a station. Based on experience she'd assumed as much, but you couldn't count on things being the way they'd always been. Perhaps this was no longer a station, and she simply hadn't heard the news.

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. THat's no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

Jika lawanmu tidak ingin pedangnya diambil, jangan berkeras mengambilnya.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

After ~2 years with the iPhone and ~2 weeks with the iPad, it's actually the iPhone that seems like the weird size of the two...

I recall my Romani friend who drives from village to village to offer his services to potential clients and who claims, when asked about his origin, to be Irish or Italian. 'I make a living by denying who I am,' he says.

Il est des choses qui nous dépassent. Les contester ne nous mènerait nulle part. Les traquer nous perdrait à jamais. Il faut mettre une croix sur ce qui est fini si l'on veut se réinventer ailleurs.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

him. When an animal is

I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with it's chaos.

Barack Obama is the most successful new marketer in history. Study his campaign so that you can adapt the ideas for your business.

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.

When we see for ourselves there is a problem, change becomes much easier.

there is no such thing as permanence or solidity—that every thing and every being in this world is undergoing constant change.

We forget that it's only a matter of time before there is change—and, once again, a shift in perspective.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

One world moved on, the next came to life around you, and before you knew it, things that had been normal and accepted were nothing more than late-night reruns and memories to be shared over a beer.

Seems there's a man in the swamp off 17 that forgot you need to breathe to socialize in these parts.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man