Quotes about Adaptation

A good rule of thumb is: You need to detach most when it seems the least likely or possible thing to do. I

reactionaries.

Sometimes things happen, and for a variety of reasons I may not end up where I wanted to go. If I change my mind or problems beyond my control interfere, I find myself doing something other than what I had planned. Timing and exact circumstances may vary. That's okay. I usually end up someplace that's better for me. That's where acceptance, trust, faith, and letting go come in. But at least I'm not driving aimlessly through life.

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the payoff of scrupulous preparation and drill.

Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.

Help us to never cast aside the whole relationship just because it has developed a nonworking part.

Some people are hardheaded and will not attempt to change until they experience a hard lesson.