Quotes about Adaptation

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

It's the impeded stream that sings.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.