Quotes About Adaptation

Past experience, no matter how vast or varied, cannot be the guarantee of future best performance. Experience, in my view, is often a double-edged sword that sometimes works in your favor, and many a times against. You must use experience and expertise smartly to your advantage, and never fall prey to 'Been there, done that' attitude.

Siempre se puede reinventar a ti mismo, y hacerte una mejor persona - no importa quién eres, y no importa en qué lugar del mundo te vienen. Reinventar, siempre!

The most interesting aspect of Life is that it always goes on - either with or without you. Life also moves pretty fast, regardless of whether you take nothing away or you put nothing back. The truth remains that empires collapse and civilizations disappear, and yet Life goes on. La Vie Continue!

Veränderung ist immer unvermeidlich, denn nichts bleibt noch immer.

You can always re-invent yourself, and make yourself a better person - no matter who you are, and no matter where in the world you come from. Re-invent, always!

You May Not Like It, But It Is What It Is. Accept It, And Move On, Because That's Life.

A fish in water, for example, requires oxygen for survival. However, the medium to deliver it must be water, not air. The atmosphere that symbolically represents White culture is quite noticeable to people of color, and while nurturing to White Euro-Americans, it may prove less than healthy for people of color.

This change often presents a major challenge because the person may experience loneliness and the type of marginalization that people of color have constantly experienced. For many White Americans, the challenge and isolation may be too much, and they will return to their old ways allowing denial and self-deception to reestablish themselves.

Becoming aware of the customs and contradictions of the dominant group is a coping mechanism that maximizes survival.

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That's what they'd said countless times in the past. Of course, they'd been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.

how easily the hunter can become the prey. All it takes is a new perspective.

Plans are like buses," he said. "Sometimes they just don't turn up when you need one.

Should we change our name?" Saracen asked. "The Dead People, perhaps?" "The Dead Non-Gender-Specific Persons?" Vex suggested. "Dead Men and a Girl? Dead Men and a Little Lady?

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse

And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.

The Sparrow flies South for Winter" - Skulduggery Pleasant

She'd had a lot of practice at closing off the part of herself that felt sad about things like this.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.