Quotes About Adaption

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.

I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.

I love the life in LA, it really suits this point in time, but London is home. I feel like I'm lucky that I get to have a bit of both, so rather than have to choose life just works out where I have to be in one place.

Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world, nothing quite prepares us for the abrupt shift to the breathing realm.

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

other words, technologies only come to life and have meaning as people adopt and use them.

The good thing about life is that you can change it.

on n'est pas forcément du pays où l'on est né. Il y a des grains que le vent aime semer ailleurs.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a Wolf" – Nikita Khrushchev

Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing. Similarly, those wishing to keep abreast of mechanical engineering in the late nineteenth century had little choice but to keep working at the coalface where knowledge was being sledge-hammered out of the rock of ignorance.

Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Successful leaders look beyond their own field to discover new approaches, learn best practices and push the margins. Then they pass on what they have learned.

Would their relocation be a lifelong prison sentence?

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

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.