Quotes About Adaptation

They reminded me somehow of the peasants in a book by Steinbeck: they were of the city, but they dressed like peasants, they looked like peasants, and they talked like peasants. Their cows were motor-driven milk floats; their tools were mop and pail and kneeling pad; their farms a forest of steel and concrete. In spite of the hairgrips and headscarves, they had their own kind of dignity. They

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

You can say this for ready-mixes — the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

It's hard to keep up with your children,' he said. 'It means keeping up with everything new. And you stay in your rut and then it's too late. Before you know it you are old.

What we live with, we learn. What we learn, we practice. What we practice, we become.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.

You will rarely have things go the way you planned. Just remember you're objective and keep on moving in that direction. Make do with what resources you have and deliver the agreed upon result anyway. It will set you apart from most of the rest.

Many of this generation, such as Clair, sacrificed dreams of what they wanted to do, in order to do what they had to do for a living. I wonder how many of us, or our descendants, would be able to do so well under such trying circumstances.

Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance.

At the root of Spanglish is a very universal state of being. It is a dis placement from one place, home, to another place, home, in which feels at home in both places, Yet at home in neither place. It is a kind of banging-one's-head-against-the-wall state, and the only choice you have left is to embrace the transitory (read transnatiknal) state of in-between.

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.

You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

One thing that you can always be sure of when it comes to networks: they're always changing

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Lydia's never met a working translator as old as this before: usually they burn out, go into teaching, change careers (e.g., become drug dealers) or just retire.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

We are eager to give birth to new ministries, but are lousy at letting old ones die.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.