Quotes About Adaptation

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

I come from the generation of readers who expected a beloved series to go on and on. I would be happy to keep Bruce and Barbara and Jimmy going as long as they're willing to talk to me in my head. But times have changed, and if that's not possible, I don't know what will come next.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. You begin with what is comfortable and never experience what is uncomfortable when you know the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

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Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind; you change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

La preparación y la formación incluyen tomar la información que recibes de una fuente externa y adaptarla a tu situación, aprendértela a conciencia de tal forma que pase a ser tuya, y aplicar esos procedimientos o técnicas sobre el terreno.

If you always do what you've always done, you're always going to get what you've always gotten.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

How many times had people made that very same mistake with me? So often I'd almost come to rely on it as part of my camouflage.

I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.

we shift around on a seesaw moral continuum for our whole lives. Nobody stays the same!

It is what it is and Life Goes on

Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

Fear is the killer of fascinating change.

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.