Quotes about Adaptation

Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by—though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.