"All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation."

-- Max McKeown

#Successful Quotes #Adaptation Quotes

“I'm going to the White House to get my presidential kneepads.”
“All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.”
“Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.”
“Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”
“Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.”
“Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data they experience in the world around them, and remembering it, raw. It's basically what extreme savants have happen in their brains.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.”
“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”

Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.573, Random House

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