Quotes About Adaptation

self-conscious principle: change as reform, rather than revolution.

Dingen kunnen nog zo rotsvast zitten, zolang je zelf maar blijft bewegen kun je ze altijd weer veranderen. Eén stap opzij, een stapje van niks is genoeg en heel de wereld oogt anders. Een mens moet in het leven zijn eigen coulissen verplaatsen.

Gewenning. Het lijkt verraderlijk veel op tevredenheid maar is het tegenovergestelde.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.

Anyone could live this life, he reflected, provided they had the sense to give up the other way of life.

It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.

You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a question of attitude. At a particular moment in your life you adopt a certain position, whether mistaken or not. You decide to be like this or that. You burn your boats, and then all you can do is defend that position, come what may.

A poco que vivas, la vida les quita la letra mayúscula a palabras que antes escribías con ella: Honor, Patria, Bandera... La

Todo lo vivido aprovecha, de una u otra forma. Excepto para los fanáticos y los imbéciles.

La del agente secreto, como cualquier vida clandestina, requería talento, frialdad y aptitudes para la supervivencia. También capacidad de improvisación, saber adaptarse al entorno y facilidad para captar el conjunto por simples detalles.

Por aquí han pasado novedades editoriales cuya lectura emprendía con ilusión y curiosidad; pero, a medida que me hago mayor, me inclino más por los viejos conocidos, hermanos de la costa que nunca son del todo viejos porque tienen la cualidad de amoldarse, renovados, frescos y sabios, a la mirada cada vez más fatigada de este su lector. (Prologando «El enigma de las arenas» de Childers...)

Allí jamás será aquí

En 1986 entrábamos en la Comunidad Económica Europea, y el progreso y la modernidad llegaron para quedarse. Alfonso Guerra lo había clavado: A España no la va a reconocer ni la madre que la parió. … Y así fue, y así es todavía.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

He llegado a esa dura etapa de la vida, que es el repliegue.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

When it is said that a buddha shows the path in accordance with the respective karmic fortune of the disciples, this means that he adapts his teaching to their respective intelligence and mental capacities.