Quotes About Adaptation

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

Healing is due to a changed

You do not want to remain in a rut.

Water seeks its own level.

The more tools you have to work on a problem in the form of experiences or knowledge, the more new ways you can figure out how to solve it.

In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for.

She's out from my life, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe, but that's simply not my style. What's done is done. I'm sure I had my reasons.

streams do not make iteration obsolete

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

One crucial distinction between major depression and chronic depression is that, in the latter, one largely ceases to howl in protest that the world is hard or painful. Rather, one becomes accustomed to it, expecting such hardship and greeting it with, at best, a stoic determination.

From a young age, Lincoln experienced psychological pain and distress, to the point that he believed himself temperamentally inclined to suffer to an unusual degree. He learned how to articulate his suffering, find succor, endure, and adapt. Finally, he forged meaning from his affliction so that it became not merely an obstacle

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

So, what's first? Dexterity. I throw things at you. You avoid them. You're not a complicated person, are you? Let's do it. 20 seconds later You hib me wib a girder! How many claws am I holding up? You hib my face wib a whole girder! You were meant to duck. Can we skip degsteriby?

Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

As I started a new life in Arizona, I knew I was losing myself. Even a lost place within yourself is a place, albeit liminal, a kind of border town. You can make a temporary home if you need to from found materials and shreds of forgotten dreams, and you can even dress to appear somewhat ordinary as you run away, a refugee from yourself. I rolled up the map of my known world and set it aside for some kind of strange autonomy.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.

I have no inner life. I have no 'intimate' life. I am just what I-what to do. I move from one habitation to another like one of those-is it herit crabs? Taking up residence in others shells. (…) Others' shells are fine. You come, and then you go. They're gone

Momma used to say, you got to know when to move. More important than knowing when to stay put.

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness.