Quotes About Adaption

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

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.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

I think I'm the last generation that remembers life before the smartphone. I'm going to be one of them old geezers going, 'You know, when I was a kid, we used to play with sticks.'

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

If a narrative isn't working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn't done to you; the narrative is something that you choose. Once we can dig deep and find a different narrative, then we ought to be able to change the game.

It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.

people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.

we change the course of our actions according to what we learn is good for our survival. If

Think about cuisine: Most probably, your great-grandparents never encountered a market offering Chinese dumplings, Bombay lime pickle, lemongrass curry, tiramisu, and gnocci, but these foods are now an integral part of the modern world.

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and forming new links, new family and new relationships.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.