Quotes About Adaptation

The art of shapeshifting also includes reading the energy in the room. Protect yourself from ignorance and keep out of harm's way.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Armed conflict is a human condition, and I do not doubt we will continue to reinvent it from generation to generation.

War no longer exists.

You do not retreat from a road-block; you make your way around it, or look for another route to where you are going. And you learn to zigzag ... Take a different route, albeit a longer one.

It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.

The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of course, the way things are going, a time may come when we won't be able to distinguish between monkeys and humans. Monkeys are becoming more human, while humans are becoming more like monkeys. Summer

We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Remember, they lived in the drainpipes, too.

I do not mind difficulties, as long as they are new difficulties.

What is not developing properly in your child is the capacity to shift from focusing on the here and now to focusing on what is likely to come next in life and the future more generally.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Edson: The things we took for granted do not take us so.

A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.

The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There was a distinct messiness to the place they created. But it was very real, and in a way, very modern.

uncomfortably modern sound. With only a little nudging

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Rather than an event, learning becomes a process.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

todas as grandes mudanças são precedidas de vigorosa reavaliação e reorganização intelectuais.