Adaptation quotes - page 22

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
 G. Stanley Hall
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.
 Sonia Johnson
Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.
 Spencer Johnson
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
 J. F. Powers
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
 Audre Lorde
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
 George Gaylord Simpson
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.
 Margot Frank
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
 RuPaul
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.
 Ronald McNair
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
 Arnold Bennett
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
 Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
 Gottfried Leibniz
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
 Seymour Papert
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
 Nick Lampson
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
 Marquis de Sade
Fashion can give you confidence. And things have definitely changed in the industry, mostly for the positive. We're more accepting now. For me, someone like Ashley Graham, who loves her body and is always talking about it, is inspiring.
 Kate Upton