Quotes About Adaptation

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Speech recognition today doesn't really work in noisy environments.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

The plays that I performed in the '70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in common is a solid foundation of a story, and good, healthy comedy.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Things change very quickly. You have to be prepared and ready and on your toes at all times.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

I can't really say I miss my toes.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Whether it's at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.

Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

You can never make an assumption about the conversation you are about to have with somebody. People will always surprise you, which is what keeps you on your toes.

When I came into the league, I was very politically correct, because I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. Now, I've gotten to the point where I know you don't have to be like that.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house.

The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.