Adapt and overcome.

 

Adapt and overcome.
--
Described as being written at his mirror, on additional DVD materials for "Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring".

 

Viggo Mortensen

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Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don't try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following breeze they hoist full sail; in a head wind they shorten sail or heave to. Adapt yourself to circumstances in the same way.

 

Bion of Borysthenes

 

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

 

Arthur C. Clarke

 

And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate--which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.

 

Socrates

 

While I am watching over you,
no great need will overcome you.
be mindful of the name of the Trinity
And none shall overcome you.

 

Taliesin

 

... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

 

David Gemmell