Quotes About Adaptation

Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static. They grow or they diminish. But, in either case, they change. Our emotional interests, our intellectual pursuits, our personal preoccupations, all change. So do those of our friends. So the relationship that binds us together must change too; it must be flexible enough to meet the alterations of person and circumstance

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

Lei era così, rompeva equilibri solo per vedere in quali altri modi poteva ricomporli.

Cada cual se organiza el recuerdo como le conviene.

Lina es valiente, incluso demasiado. Pero no sabe adaptarse a la realidad, es incapaz de aceptar a los demás y aceptarse a sí misma

El mundo da vueltas, menos mal, si se cae, se rompe.

Vedi? Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può».

Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.

In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.

Za muškarce se vezujemo malo-pomalo, bez obzira na to uklapaju li se u mdoel muškarca koji sebi postavljamo u odre?enim životnim periodima.

Svakog dana sam sebi ponavljala: to sam što sam, i nema mi druge nego da se s tim pomirim; takva sam ro?ena, u ovom gradu, sa ovim dijalektom, u besparici; da?u od sebe ono što mogu, uze?u ono što mogu, podne?u ono što se mora podneti.

In hyperbolic tones he listed the catastrophes that in his view were approaching: one, the decline of the revolutionary subject par excellence, the working class; two, the definitive dispersion of the political patrimony of socialists and Communists, who were already perverted by their daily quarrel over which was playing the role of capital's crutch; three, the end of every hypothesis of change, what was there was there and we would have to adapt to it.

Allora perché non ti rassegni? Colpa della testa che non sa calmarsi, cerca di continuo un modo per funzionare.

SpíÅ¡ mi to pÃ…â"¢ipadalo jako jeden z mnoha zp?sob?, jak pÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?it sami sebe, že v životÄ› vždycky máme nÄ›jakou tenkou vÄ›tev, které se chytíme, a jak na ní visíme, zvykáme si na nevyhnutelnost toho, že se zÃ…â"¢ítíme.

I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes. Day by day I grew calmer.

My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

At the first such gathering, I politely sat with them for half an hour, drank some vodka, and even recited a toast about how great it was that Gulya had such great friends. This proved to be a tactical error, since afterward Gulya wanted me to drink vodka and recite toasts with them every night, which was not compatible with my program of study of the great Uzbek language.

I couldn't help thinking it was wasteful for people with such good logic skills to spend so many years and so much energy learning to reconcile an old book with the way things were now. Couldn't a person just write a new book?

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.