Quotes About Adaption

I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.

I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. —James Russell Lowell Poet, Editor, and Diplomat

If some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out and claim something else to take its place.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Creative teams are dynamic.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

Finding useful new technologies is just the first step to improving your life. The real benefits come once you start experimenting with how best to use them.

Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn't mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental landscape

Studying culture without experiencing culture shock is like practicing swimming without experiencing water.

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.

I like to try new things as well as stay in my comfort zone so I think all the styles or looks I do, represent me.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.