Quotes About Adaptation

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

as if nothing had happened— as if everything mattered—What else could I do?

Life displays mad hospitality. The Korean biologist Kwang Jeon of the University of Tennessee received in the 1970s a batch of amoebas infected with a deadly bacterial strain. Most died. In a set of careful experiments after culturing the survivor amoebas for several generations, he found that the survivors, with fewer bacteria per cell, could no longer live without their infection.

Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way.

[Skin is] the first line of defense for the body. … Our building skins should be more similar to human skin.

It's just that I can't figure out how to be in this world without him. I just can't be the same.

Maybe as you aged, what you wanted from a relationship changed too.

Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever, and even if you stay with the same boy for the rest of your life, this incarnation of love won't stay the same, it never does.

things are very rarely better, just different.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

We think that relationship structures should be designed to fit the people in them rather than people chosen to fit some abstract ideal of the perfect relationship. There's no right or wrong way to do this as long as everyone's having fun and getting their needs met.

the most successful long-term relationships are the ones with enough flexibility to redefine themselves over and over again through the years.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

It's easy to cry "bug" when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.

These days, things were different. Much different. For the most part, what fun there was to be had at Upton Park came from the cat and mouse side of the contest. Thinking on your feet and trying to outwit old bill while still trying to get one over on the opposition. It was like a real life computer game, Theme Hooligan. He still got a buzz from it though, but not the same buzz. And he wasn't alone. The scene was dying on its arse although that wasn't always down to the police.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.