Quotes About Adaptation

The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Alfred Jarry] neither wished nor was able to adapt himself to the world as it was. He ignored the conventions of life, and even the conditions of life. He refused to compromise with something for which he felt nothing but scorn, and he accepted with indifference the logical consequences of his attitude—that life should destroy him, and much sooner than most.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Man has received fewer physical advantages from nature than any other animal. For the protection of his organs he has an envelope as delicate as a rose-leaf, which can he rent by a thorn. The beasts are wrapped in wool or fur, the birds in non-conducting plumage. They have claws and fangs, and are well-shod, and move with agility, but man is tender-footed, slow in his motions, his nails and teeth are fragile.

the ones who get to the idea that resisting what is so is actually causing them greater emotional suffering than the illness itself. Accepting what was going on allowed them to flow with the new demands of their bodies in a much more empowered way.

If you want to reach someplace new, you have to do something different than you've always done. Same actions will only yield the same results.

What do you do if your girlfriend starts smoking? Slow down and use some lubricant.

But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.

Billy always survived. Like a cockroach. The world's smartest, meanest, craziest cockroach.

I don't believe in writer's block. Writer's block is when you're running down an ally and all of a sudden you're trapped by a brick wall. You can't go under, over, or through it. You're stuck. But the problem isn't that you can't pass the brick wall. You see, the problem is that you went down the wrong ally.

Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it.

fail fast and move on

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

The dominant characteristic of Silicon Valley was—and remains—the exceedingly fast pace and dynamic instability of the product development cycle within a rapidly changing technology environment.

In times of uncertainty or danger, when the net is cast, plan ahead or plan to think fast!

To be genetically correct, man needs a modern version of a Neo-Paleolithic diet, a diet that's based on his current genetic makeup. That's exactly what a Zone-favorable diet is: a diet that is synergistic with mankind's genetic structure, which has changed very little in the last 100,000 years.

Love does not stand still, as everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story; they are always there, part of the meaning.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Any plan is bad which is not susceptible of change.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.