Constant Adaptation Quotes

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

The presidency is not an office job.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

You should never lose the formula that worked for you from the beginning, no matter how big you get.

I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

I spend upwards of 200 nights a year on the road.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.

You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Have a baby, and you realize: The second you think you got sh-t figured out, you don't. It's the greatest wake-up call.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good and that they'll be okay.' But it's like, every day we're worried, 'Are we gonna be good?' Things change constantly, so you just gotta push, and you gotta work to the core.