Quotes About Adaption

Life is pressuring us to live by the robots' pleasures, I thought. Our appetites have given way to theirs. Robots aren't becoming us, I feared; we are becoming them.

Our living space is our closest companion, part self, part other relationships, always communicating, always reflecting our process of change.

our living space is our closest companion, always communicating, always reflecting our process of change)

Collies learn things quickly but they can also pick up bad habits just as quickly. A simple Border Collie 'task' of digging for a bug or a worm can soon turn into a massive excavation.

It is really interesting to change your hair color after being blond your entire life.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

I didn't play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

I was hanging around New York, getting used to being on the street. I didn't have any friends I didn't know anybody at that point.

I've always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses

My husband is a workaholic, so he will work wherever he is.

We came over when I was 8 from Taiwan. That was my life: going to school, working at the restaurant, playing basketball.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.

Technology does have an impact on behavior, but culture comes first.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.