Quotes About Adaptation

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.

Switzerland didn't exactly work out. Neither did France. Or Norway." "Three schools?" Hale asked. "Well, technically, five schools—three countries.

Small changes. Big differences

Food is so yesterday." Unfortunately, that was the last time I'd had some.

A lot of things had changed on that bridge.

Si nuestros abuelos nos vieran, se morirían primero de risa, después de pena. Porque para ellos esto no sería una crisis, sino un leve contratiempo.

Inés y la alegría es una obra de ficción inserta en la crónica de un acontecimiento histórico real. Para afrontar su escritura, un formato nuevo para mí, he mantenido ciertas lealtades y me he tomado ciertas libertades.

Building a better mousetrap isn't always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Future shock… the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Mereka yang disebut buta huruf (illiterate) di abad ke-21 bukanlah orang-orang yang tidak bisa membaca dan menulis, namun mereka yang tidak bisa belajar (learn), menanggalkan pelajaran sebelumnya (un-learn), dan belajar kembali (re-learn).

It does little good to forecast the future of semiconductors or energy, or the future of the family (even one's own family), if the forecast springs from the premise that everything else will remain unchanged. For nothing will remain unchanged. The future is fluid, not frozen. It is constructed by our shifting and changing daily decisions, and each event influences all others.

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask,she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.

Ever, if I've learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it's that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it's not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.