Quotes About Adaptation

Perhaps you can change the wallpaper, but you are less likely to change Uncle Bill, your kids, your established tastes with respect to a living environment, or your resource constraints.

to incorporate the materials and processes it has in stock and expects to use in future even if this produces a boot that is not precisely right for the present customer.

If some things could change, so could other things. What right had I to predict the future and predict it so nihilistically? As I got older I would probably change in hundreds of ways I couldn't foresee. All I had to do was wait it out.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women. —D. H. Lawrence

Yer deÄŸiÅŸtirmelerim izimi kaybetmemi saÄŸl?yordu. Her bir görev, özümlemem gereken yeni yeni öÄŸeler ortaya ç?kartarak, geçmiÅŸimi unutmam? saÄŸl?yordu; yeni durumlar sayesinde, içimdeki deÄŸil, yaln?zca benim d???mdaki sorunlarla mücadele ediyordum.

Vous aviez pratiqué l'exercice requis, je m'en suis rendu compte, car, malgré votre humeur de putois, votre souplesse s'était améliorée.

The person who is normal in terms of being well adapted is often less healthy than the neurotic person in terms of human values. Often he is well adapted only at the expense of having given up his self in order to become more or less the person he believes he is expected to be.

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begin to decay.

Instead of going back and looking at the question, people tinker with the solution, trying to make it fit."-Claude Legrande..."The consequences of failing to do that [in our personal lives] are the same as those facing businesses - even more dire, perhaps, because what's being squandered isn't just the potential for profits. It's the potential for happiness. We miss opportunities to innovate and to make positive changes in our lives when we aren't willing to question ourselves.

Even the clearest skies become cloudy.

I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library. "Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.

One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.

How can you go on living when you're now being lived in? When you've been invaded?

A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Life may not treat you the way you expect, so you may not treat her the way she expect, but whichever the way, be brave and prepared when she comes.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

L'identité n'est pas donnée une fois pour toutes, elle se construit et se transforme tout au long de l'existence.