Quotes About Adaptation

Without new ideas success can become stale.

I learned to recognize failure.

Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

Refugees, usually émigrés and immigrants

Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.

The better question might be: Please tell me which of these scraps you would have been unable to use a few years ago—and exactly what do you have to do to them to make them what you would consider "safe"?

I believe that the human animal evolved as it did—with eyes in the front of its head, long legs, fingernails, eyeteeth—so that it could better chase down slower, stupider creatures, kill them, and eat them; that we are designed to find and eat meat—and only became better as a species when we learned to cook it.

You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.

What's done can't be undone. How do I fit into this new world? I should have been warned, somebody should have told me. How was I to know that that sort of world wasn't going to go on for ever?

it won't be easy to prepare the vegetarian dishes." "Why?" asked Pilgrim. "Oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar," replied Sha Monk, "none of these can be found here.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can't look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.

It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on

The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the flat.

But he also looked as if by then he knew what worry was, something certainly unknown to him in the past.

A woman's power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists.

In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.

In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: 1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, 2) You are willing to take massive action, 3) You notice what's working or not, and 4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are . . . a different game you should play. —YODA

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?