Quotes About Adaptation

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The trouble with mental catch is that the ball you throw changes in midair into another.

What made me sad just then was the new knowledge that things changed, and there was nothing you could do about it. In a way, that was a Parisian emotion too.

one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A

Affonso tried to do something as difficult in his time as in ours: to be a selective modernizer. He

The tank suffered, too, from the era's strange mismatch between firepower and communications: it carried no radio, only homing pigeons, which could be pushed out a small opening in hopes they would fly back to headquarters.

In other words, we must all be prepared to answer to Uber's children.

There is a story about Henry Ford that dramatizes the "just enough" philosophy nicely: Ford used to send his people out to scour the scrap heaps of America looking for old Ford engines. Dragging them back to Detroit, they would look for the parts that hadn't worn out and then downgrade the specifications to save money.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

You heard my name was Chief Shouting Bear, he said. It doesn't matter. You can call me whatever you want, Stupidlegs.

I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest.

I'm part fairy,' said John. There was a quiet pause, and he eyed the man. 'Is that a problem?' 'No, sir. The United States military is very accepting of that sort of thing nowadays.

Alas, we are no more or less evolved than any creature. Uniqueness is terribly overrated.

If I don't make it, don't let them cast some asshole to play me in the movie version of this

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

It's the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.

Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.

All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always wanted to be!

Each poor immigrant girl had a plan in place to survive. Some had brothers or fathers for protection, others, young husbands; but for all of them, the first line of defense was their scissors.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.

Eventually, their differences brought them unhappiness, her aunt explained. It was then that her mother confided, "When you marry a man from your own village, you know how he salts his food.

I'll never get that far," Enza says. "We came to make money to buy our house. As soon as we do, we'll go home." "We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The