Quotes About Adaptation

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

The thing to do is to forget about the heat,' said Tom impatiently. 'You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.

Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

I'm half French, and I was educated in England and since I was eighteen I've worn the uniforms of eight countries.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Es invariablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos las cosas en las que uno ha gastado su propio poder de adaptación.

I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

You can't re- peat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...

Es inevitablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos cosas a las que ya hemos aplicado nuestra propia capacidad de enfoque.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

I wouldn't ask too much of her, I ventured. You can't change the past. Can't change the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can!

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

But while she had been busy raising her children, the world had left her behind.

For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

through preparation, early action, and intelligent responses, we can quickly flatten its trajectory.

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

planting dates accurately, begin collecting your own garden notes. Each season, review your notes to detect patterns, then adjust