Quotes About Adaptation

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

we avoided their swarms by putting one foot in front of another without pause and making noises of our own. We didn't step on anybody who squashed.

Or supposing humans had developed different abilities than those they have now and had learned magic rather than, say, calculus . .

Go ahead and smirk. These things are not always a mere function of time

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.

The secret of survival is to embrace change and to adapt. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change.

All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

when 'one leads a nomadic life, as I do at the moment, it is not easy to do everything at the right time'.

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a farmer: "I regard every load of wood taken, when the services of both myself and team are required on the farm, is a direct loss of more than the value of the load."114

Hamilton's life was so tumultuous that only an audacious novelist could have dreamed it up. He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

Having created an empire of unfathomable complexity, he was smart enough to see that he had to submerge his identity in the organization.

Congress adopted the dollar as the official monetary unit in 1785, but for many years New York shopkeepers still quoted prices in pounds, shillings, and pence.

but she was now better equipped to withstand his loss than she had been a few years earlier.

By the time of "A Full Vindication," Hamilton had clearly assumed the coloring of his environment.

It often saves me much annoyance.

He thought Jack might fare better in the new environment.

Never deterred by restrictive laws, Flagler switched his legal residence to Florida and applied his influence with state legislators.

The whole dismal parade of career hacks and self-promoting political generals on the Union side had been weeded out, giving way to a new fighting breed.

John's moustache began to fall out, and all the hair on his body had followed by August.