Quotes About Adaptation

Being at a very high quality level was the only way for us to survive.

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

I never was in favor of doing this. No, no, no. I was never in favor of cursing on records and so forth. I wasn't brought up like that. But I needed to survive and make money and get me a piece of show business. So when I found I could hit with this, then I turned to it. And in order to turn to it, you must do it well.

Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.

From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.

Having started with Bollywood and then moving to Telugu industry, I feel that it is not possible to survive without talent in any industry.

We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.

If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

If you look at our original business model with the verticalized law firm, a lot of these companies that have this kind of full stack model are not going to survive. A lot of these companies, Atrium included, did not figure out how to make a dent in operational efficiency.

The WWE definitely needs to reinvent itself if it wants to survive.

Travel means growth. You have to see something new. You have to grow. You can't grow in the same place. Travel takes the edge off and you are thrust into a new environment where you are forced to survive and to learn the language.

The older you get, the more you need to work on your game and try to survive with those young fellas out here.

I am ready to do whatever I need in order to survive.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.

It's a different world: when I'm writing 'Toast,' I've got one foot in 1974 and one foot in the modern day, because the modern day is nowhere near as funny or interesting.

Nick made me give away my Hello Kitty TV, my Hello Kitty microwave and my Hello Kitty toaster. I got to keep the Hello Kitty cordless phone.

I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.