Quotes about Adaptation
For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
— Francine Rivers
Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.
— Francine Rivers
Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New
— Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
— Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
— Frank Herbert
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
— Frank Herbert
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
— Frank Herbert
For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.
— Frank Herbert
Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.
— Frank Herbert
Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.
— Frank Herbert