Quotes About Adaptation

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.