Quotes About Adaptation

I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray' – onto the same page, and then call it 'vocabulary.' In a conversation, the language is always fluid, moving, and you have to move with it. You walk and talk and see where the words come from, and where they should go. It was in this way that I learned to count like a Viking.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

On this day I saw a three-legged buck, with battered antlers and worn fur, drag off through the woods. The proud stag lived on but, crippled up and worn, he would soon feed other beasts.

Unfortunately, dogmatic, unchanging rules are drunken elephants in the house of crystal that is life.

Well, maybe he was learning something about Southern manners. She

Dr Seraphina gazed at Gabriella with a cool, assessing eye. "What do you believe Gabriella?" "I believe that if we do not protect our traditions from those who would destroy them, soon there will be nothing left to interpret." "Ah, so you are a warrior, then," Dr Seraphina said, challenging Gabriella. "There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

That's what growth is all about. It doesn't come when things are status quo. It happens only when something new is introduced, forcing every integral part to adjust. This is a universal law that can be applied on any level of life.

creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

Every business needs a core strategy to be what I call always on the improve , for us it's constant, gentle pressure.

Change works only when people believe it is happening for them, not to them.

But the worst mistake is not to figure out some way to end up in a better place after having made a mistake. We call that 'writing a great last chapter.

The ABCD strategy —always be collecting dots.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

Vielleicht war es gut für mich, dass alles so kam, wie es gekommen war. Damit die Vergangenheit auch verging. Damit man nicht mehr dorthin zurückkonnte, damit man sie hinter sich lassen konnte, als machte man mit einer alten Kamera ein schlechtes Foto und kurbelte den Film dann einfach weiter.

Io penso che le cose cambino, è ovvio. Ma in base alla mia esperienza, penso spesso che le cose cambiano perché la gente non cambia.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)

So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

A translator ought to be faithful, but is not bound down to being literal.

No quieras reproducir tal cual en tu casa, la casa que dejaste al casarte. A menos que quieras comprobarlo por ti mismo, siempre tal cosa será generadora de abundantes discusiones y distanciamientos que pueden y deben evitarse. Has comenzado una nueva etapa, a escribir una nueva historia. La clave aquí es esa palabra increíble: «nueva». No lo olvides.

El hecho de que las medusas hayan sobrevivido seiscientos cincuenta años sin cerebro, es una gran noticia para algunos varones, incluyendo a tu novio. —¡Ay! No seas tan malo.

Que no puedo cambiar lo que pasó, pero sí hacer que no se