Quotes About Adaption

Asking people to change behavior is difficult!

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don't think albums are the way to go.

You have always to keep up your performances and, at the same time, you can learn new approaches.

If you look at things that are popular apps, it doesn't mean it's going to stick around.

No individual is solely reflective, emotional, active, or experimental, and different life situations call for different resources to be brought into play. Most people will, on the whole, find travel on one road more satisfactory than on others and will consequently tend to keep close to it; but Hinduism encourages people to test all four and combine them as best suits their needs.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing:

I avoided the computer generation for a very long time.

I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.

You have to look for a new way of life. You have to turn your life around. It is up to you whether it is going to be viable.

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

I used to compose a lot of music for video games, before I got into movies, and I am slowly getting back to it.

The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. Like bacteria.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

And when that happens, the only control you have is how you deal with that stick—your way, not the way others say you should.

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

She's lost her links to her old world, but she has never felt close to the one she's in now. She's torn in different directions, at a loss.