Quotes About Adaptation

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

I've got extra lenses inside my eyes to try to help me read better. They help with peripheral vision, but I've got no central vision.

Some of the decisions that you make are not permanent.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

The great leap was one from adaptation to, to control over the natural environment.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

Bisogna essere eroici per abitare in tempi così diversi da quelli del proprio modello: ma Don Chisciotte, per l'appunto, era un eroe.

Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...