Quotes About Adaptation

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.