Quotes About Adaptation

Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough - not, that is, when you're faced with really hard problems!

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

All sunshine makes a desert.

All sunshine makes the desert.

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

Most problems in life are not solved merely by correction.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

brought other changes, too, and his people had

To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

History is subject to geology.

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.

It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.

You will never make the crab walk straight.

I was high on life, but eventually I built up a tolerance.

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today.

We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.

Aristotle says that 'nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument'.

the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.

Life is not what we want but what we have.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.