Quotes About Adaptation

I admit that it's easier To learn than to relearn. But harder still Is to unlearn.

Alors qu'au Nord, la vie est rythmée par des saisons très contrastées ou tout se joue : les émotions comme l'économie. À chaque nouvelle saison, on a l'impression d'habiter une nouvelle ville. Elle nous entraîne dans une farandole : de nouveaux habits, un nouveau discours (on parle de chose différente d'une saison à l'autres), un nouveau sport, nouveaux débats politiques, une nouvelle cuisine. La vie est différente à chaque nouvelle saison.

You will become less organized as you get older.

Precious had been a darling cat, too bad they'd had to get rid of her because she clashed with the furniture. Fortunately, the aquarium was a better fit.

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

Earth had done just that over the last few hundred years.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

Un antiguo proverbio reza: «Si las hienas te van pisando los talones, arrójales para que se alimenten el más jugoso de los bocados: un cordero recién nacido. Ya verás, cuando abran las mandíbulas para triturar a su presa, no hay hiena ni chacal que preste atención al resto».

It's never too late to reinvent yourself.

Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements, including Christian ones, and Christianity is made of non-Christian elements, including Buddhist ones" (Nhat Hanh, 1995, p. 11).

people need to rethink the concept of work.

Democracy can no longer ignore the future.

New competences, new channels, new geographies versus doubling down or tripling down on the same businesses.

This isn't just a book about organizational change—it's also about

That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in."

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

The world had changed since place names were invented.