Quotes About Adaptation

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Viste —dijo Marcos cuando salimos—. Llega al mundo con tremendo golpazo y a los pocos minutos está caminando. Ni se queja. Eso se llama recuperación. —O sea —lo miré—. ¿Vos decís que sería bueno ser jirafa? Se rio con la boca abierta y me palmeó la espalda. —Capaz que sí, Emita. Capaz que estaría bueno ser jirafa.

Our staunch ideals of how we will raise our children get significantly reshaped by those very kids once they're here in the world running us ragged, wearing down our defenses, leaving us no choice but to embark on that slippery slope and say, "Just this once!" to stop the whining.

we all just figure this out as we go along. There's no textbook, there's no rules, there's no right way to love her. You just feel what you feel, you just love her the only way you know how.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one's old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born, and that this move has made me who I am today.

Do we conclude that the only thing left is learning to die – a position already propounded by some – and slide down the side of the crater into three, four, eight degrees of warming? Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Sooner or later, almost every problem in the European working world is either branded with the label "Americanization" or blamed on the culprit of Americanization—or both.

In current German usage, the concepts "Americanization" (Ameri-kanisierung) and "American conditions" (amerikanische Verhaltnisse; amerikanische Bedingungen) almost invariably stand for something negative, bad, and above all threatening, something that absolutely has to be avoided or—if the European patient has already contracted this ailment—somehow needs to be alleviated or diminished.

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

And it was the same with the Black Cauldron movie—the book was ten times better.

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.

know how to turn a failed experiment into a life lesson

Uncertainty is the only certainty in this world.

Most new species arise not from the insensibly gradual transformation of large populations but rather by the rapid differentiation of small, isolated populations at the periphery of the main group.

Globalization has forced us to confront an extraordinarily diverse world that is undergoing massive change at a pace unimaginable to our parents or grandparents.

Don't be a slave to history. Don't let existing code dictate future code. All code can be replaced if it is no longer appropriate. Even within one program, don't let what you've already done constrain what you do next -- be ready to refactor... This decision may impact the project schedule. The assumption is that the impact will be less than the cost of /not/ making the change.

Programmers are constantly in maintenance mode.