Quotes about Adaption

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If I change the way I react, I can change the way I define myself as a mother.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

Tobacco, banjo playing, and dominoes do not figure in the Decalogue as recorded in the Book of Exodus. But particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, Christians have been adept, and remarkably inventive, at interpreting God's commandments to cover just about anything they don't approve of. The effect, of course, is to make the surpassingly large God of the scriptures into a petty Cosmic Patrolman.

If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

So we need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.