Quotes About Adaptation

Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires.

When Esther and Joe - resolutely urban, nurtured by density, neurosis, and the Great Depression - discovered the woods, they never wanted to leave.

So much of what we are is water. We change with the tides, we struggle in our own endless seas to transform ourselves into something or someone splendid.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

art was a process of evolution - not revolution...

It's important to remember that others' ways of talking to you are partly a reaction to your style, just as your style with them is partly a reaction to their style—with you.

Women and men would both do well to learn strategies more typically used by members of the other group— not to switch over entirely, but to have more strategies at their disposal.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Never get too attached to any thing, son. Somebody will be there to take it from you.'" And

You're not mutation, you are evolution.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. pg. 2

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.

During the time of the white man's Civil War, troubles arose between the Modocs and the settlers. If a Modoc could not find a deer to kill for his family, he would sometimes kill a rancher's cow; or if he needed a horse he would borrow one out of a settler's pasture.

Women in the West who insisted on wearing the full-skirted modes of the nineteenth century—including the hoop-skirt, the bustle, and Mother Hubbards—fought a continual battle against a hostile environment. The fact that flowing yards of silk and satin eventually won out over buckskin and rawhide is only one more confirmation of the theory that woman's vanity can conquer all, any place and any time.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Cinta butuh dipelihara. Bahwa di dalam sepak terjangnya yang serba-mengejutkan, cinta ternyata masih butuh mekanisme agar mampu bertahan.

Hidup Ini Cair

Pembaruan hadir dalam setiap detik. Perbaikan terjadi setiap saat, tapi ketakutan-ketakutan Anda tadilah yang justru menghancurkan.

Don't try to steer the river.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.