Quotes about Adaptation

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster than anything you can manage now. It should enable you to vary your rate of reading in accordance with the nature and complexity of the material.

If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures.

Keep your attention firmly concentrated on your new path-building and forget all about the old paths.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.