Quotes About Adaptation

Que tens tu com essa sucessão de ruína a ruína ou de flor a flor? Trata de saborear a vida; e fica sabendo que a pior filosofia é a do choramingas que se deita à margem do rio para o fim de lastimar o curso incessante das águas. O ofício delas é não parar nunca; acomoda-te com a lei, e trata de aproveitá-la.

não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Tempora mutantur.

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left

Mankind do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

What happens to what's happened?

If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment.

We are all strangers in a strange land.

Oh, my darling you are not dumb, her father answered. You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.

Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. "I think when we're married we might have something more modern," he grumbled. "No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.

Art?k her ÅŸeyin eskisi gibi olmas?n? beklemekten vazgeçip olanlar? kabullenmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti.

It's not what I thought my life would be either, but somewhere along the line we have to pick things up and run with them.

That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.