Quotes about Adaptation

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Without money, one must take what one is offered, and be glad to get it.

You may have had big-time plans in your life-major league dreams that haven't panned out. You were going to write a best-selling book, but the opportunities just haven't come along. Are you willing to write for your church newsletter?

Hold everything loosely.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.