Quotes About Adaptation

The past doesn't have to be our future.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

If you cant go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

I just think it's funny the way my brain tries to make sense of strange places by imagining its people are familiar.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

sometimes when moving forward in life leads you to no where, one best option is to start moving backward" Ashu Shamy

That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.

Do not be afraid to make mistakes.

The past doesn't define your present.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own. I

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses." Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: "Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.

People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

To make two ears grow where one grew before is a profound solace to my spirit. To watch a hired man do it would be an even profounder solace.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

Durante os dois primeiros anos do ensino secundário, eu tinha apenas dois cadernos e quase nada estava escrito neles. Era difícil adaptar-me a uma educação que não provocava a minha inteligência. Alguns, naquela época, vendo o meu aparente desinteresse, achavam que eu não seria nada na vida. Mas dentro de mim, havia uma explosão de ideias. Pensar era uma aventura que me encantava.» Pergaminho, 2004: p. 72

Para os profissionais liberais, executivos e trabalhadores das empresas, a frase Se você não mudar, morrerá quer dizer que, se não pensarem pela empresa e se reciclarem, serão ultrapassados, perderão sua competência. Se não abrirem as janelas de sua mente para prevenir erros e fazer além do que lhes é exigido, sufocarão o brilho de sua inteligência, deixarão de ser úteis.

To say that a grasshopper should work like an ant is a piece of foolishness perpetuated through centuries. The grasshopper won't change. In any case it is the ant who should change.