Quotes About Adaptation

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Adversity in life teaches you.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

There are no second acts in American lives.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Most of what our students need to know hasn't been discovered or invented yet. "Learning how to learn" used to be an optional extra in education; today, it's a survival skill.

Feedback functions formatively only if the information fed back to the learner is used by the learner in improving performance.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.†

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.

She made me act normal. Because I was. Because I could. She told me to breathe and sit up. And I did what she asked. Again.

The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn't static. It's an adaptation.

Other people adapt to you, asshole. You think there's no adapting going on, but you're fucking blind, Forrest. It's all around you, all the time.

It's better, I think, to move on. To look forward.