Quotes About Adaptation

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.