Quotes About Adaptation

To survive here required one to sip the air; the wide sky belonged to the nobles.

Each time he returned, he looked slightly different, not merely older, but changed: a new accent, the cigarettes, three sharp knocks on the door. It was as if the city was entering his body and remaking it; he'd look at the low dark houses and wandering hens and farmers with their rope belts as if at film from another century.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

You must learn to let go. Believe me, it's not easy. But you must let whatever will happen, happen

What a thing, half bird, half lizard, part one thing, part another, trapped forever between more perfect states.

If our beliefs don't evolve and shift and grow during our lives then I have to wonder if we are actually paying attention.

You're not defined by your past experiences. You're prepared by them.

You can't be a bird, then cry about not being able to fly.

Romans tended to fight sea battles as if they were on land.

Resistance to change has been strong.

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.

These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

of those clothes.

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.