Adaptation Quotes

"The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people."

- Daniel Pinkwater

"When it’s obvious that the goals cannot be reachecd, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."

- Gail Sheehy

"Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese."

- Gene Perret

"We must let go of the life that we planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"It was a womb issue for me. Embryos wouldn’t implant. [Surrogacy is] a big leap, inviting this person into your life to do this amazing, important thing for you. And it’s hard losing that kind of control. But our surrogate is so extraordinary and she’s still in our lives. She’s like an auntie."

- Elizabeth Banks

"After trying and trying, I, unfortunately, couldn’t have my babies. It was my reality. I heard about the surrogate option and it worked out beautifully."

- Angela Bassett

"Each new situation requires a new architecture."

- Jean Nouvel

"The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either."

- Daniel Gilbert

"Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation."

- Jean Piaget

"The individual acts only if he experiences a need, i.e., if the equilibrium between the environment and the organism is momentarily upset, and action tends to re-establish the equilibrium, i.e., to re-adapt the organism."

- Jean Piaget

"To avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa."

- Jean Piaget

"As the season changes, we learn to adapt."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."

- Billy Connolly

""I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.""

- Jimmy Dean

""Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.""

- Nicole Kidman

"If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward"

- John Wooden

"To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyways."

- Ken

"[We] tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get pregnant, but it just was not [meant] to be the conventional way. Meeting your children [through surrogacy] rather than giving birth to them, it’s suspended animation. The gestational experience is gone. It’s as if everything else disappears for a moment and the world goes silent."

- Sarah Jessica Parker

"I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people."

- Lionel Messi

"I’m used to there being a lot of people being around for photoshoots and videos, as well as all the football. I can see all the preparation that goes into it. It just becomes part of normal life. It’s nice to see so many people around and ready to work. Do I like it? It’s what life’s about. There’s no other way."

- Lionel Messi

"The Marines don’t have that problem. They are a problem-solving organization."

- Ronald Reagan

"Adapt, improvise, and overcome."

- U.S. Marine Corps

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."

- Bruce Lee (Jeet Kune Do)

""I always think street but train sport.""

- Conor McGregor

"Passover remains relevant and contemporary, while at the same time a ritual several thousand years old… The content—at least some of it—is flexible and determined by the participants at specific celebrations. Thus, the holy day is still meaningful to younger generations, because it allows for creative input and participation. It breathes."

- Jack Santino, Winter into Spring: Celebrating Rebirth and Renewal, All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life

"Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength"

- Helio Gracie

"“Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”"

"I find the biggest trouble with having nothing to do is you can't tell when you are done."