Quotes About Adaptation

There is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just because you are going to lose it.

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

I wish I had a stone for the knife,» the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. «I should have brought a stone.» You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.

He wants to stay in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. You kept from thinking and it was all marvellous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

New means must be discovered to find room for us under the sun. Shall this be done by war or can it be done by peaceful methods? Or will we all have to move to Canada? Our deepest convictions—will Science upset them? Our civilization—is it inferior to older orders of things?

Quem me dera uma pedra para a faca, continuou, depois de ter verificado a amarração ao remo. Eu devia ter trazido uma pedra. Devias ter trazido muitas coisas. Mas não as trouxeste, meu velho. E agora já não é ocasião de pensar no que não tens. Pensa no que podes fazer com o que há.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

Night plans aren't any good in the morning. The way you think at night is no good in the morning.

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

Má»—i ngày là má»™t ngày má»›i. G?p may thì t?t hÆ¡n. NhÆ°ng mình Æ°a sá»± chính xác. ?? khi v?n may ??n thì mình Ä'ã s?n sàng.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

Then several women had put themselves out to be nice to him, and his horizons had all shifted.

Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

Go and be fish again.

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

The question Who am I? really asks, Where do I belong or fit? We get the sense of that direction -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

We all know the old adage about why an elephant with all its power can be held in place by a small rope and peg. This is because elephants remember when they were babies and did not have the strength to pull the peg out of the ground. In short, elephants remain captive because their memories lie to them. They tell them that their past is their future—that what they experienced before will always be the reality that is before them.

Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.