Quotes About Adaptation

Louis and Regina found a tiny apartment on Eldridge Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, for $8 a month. Louis then took to the streets, looking for work. He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts. The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World. He was first overwhelmed, then invigorated. He went

Most people with a serious disability cannot master all those steps. But those who can are better off than they would have been otherwise, because what is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.

It is easier and far more satisfying to retreat and compose yourself after every score—and execute perfectly choreographed plays—than to swarm about, arms flailing, and contest every inch of the basketball court. Underdog strategies

The standard immigrant-entrepreneur story is about the redemptive power of grit and ingenuity.

Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these are still the dimensions of life that are important to him.

all of us, when it comes to constructing our sense of self, borrow bits and pieces, ideas and phrases, rituals and products from the world around us — over-the-counter-ethnicities that shape, in some small but meaningful way, our identities

think we get in trouble when this process of editing is disrupted—when we can't edit, or we don't know what to edit, or our environment doesn't let us edit.

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.

If everyone needs to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

In Mexico, on his grandfather's farm, dogs were dogs and humans were humans: each knew its place. But in America, dogs were treated like children, and owners had shaken up the hierarchy of human and animal.

Los disléxicos compensan su discapacidad desarrollando otras destrezas que —algunas veces— se revelan como destacadas ventajas

We have no choice but to talk to strangers in our modern, borderless world. We aren't living in villages anymore. Police officers have to stop people they don't know. Intelligence officers have to deal with deception and uncertainty. Young people want to go to parties explicitly to meet strangers... Yet at this most necessary of tasks we are inept. We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can't (p. 342).

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

Success Comes from listening to your customer.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.