Quotes About Adaption

I'm constantly trying to grow as a musician, so when I listen to different things, I'm like, 'That'd be cool to do something like that,' and I try to keep myself open-minded.

When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern.  One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. 

He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes. "You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into.

in a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn't where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn't ever stop living under that big sky.

one way to motivate a switch is to shrink the change, which makes people feel "big" relative to the challenge.

Many people have discovered that, when it comes to changing their own behavior, environmental tweaks beat self-control every time.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.

Pandemic-proof means the mobile phone has to be used and it has to be used in such a positive way that your next invention has to say, 'You know what, I am going to get another 30-40-50 million users that are out there onto my product through my mobile phone and that's going to help me sell what I do.'

I had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

It's neither possible nor desirable for individuals or nations to change completely, and to discard everything of their former identities. The challenge, for nations as for individuals in crisis, is to figure out which parts of their identities are already functioning well and don't need changing, and which parts are no longer working and do need changing.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.