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Quotes About Adaptation

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
~ Andy Murray
He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we're closer than ever.
~ Ann Aguirre
I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
~ Ann Brashares
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
~ Ann Dowd
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
~ Ann Patchett
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
~ Annabelle Wallis
I've always been about wanting people to spread my music and share it. This way, it allowed me to adapt in real time.
~ Anoop Desai
I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.
~ Arielle Ford
When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.
~ Avey Tare
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
~ Bai Ling
By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.
~ Baratunde Thurston
Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.
~ Bella Heathcote
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
~ Benjamin Franklin
My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
~ Benjamin Stone
You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.
~ Bernie Ecclestone
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
~ Bill Burr
Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
~ Bill Hayden
A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.
~ Bill Mollison
Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.
~ Bill Vaughan
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
~ Billy Joel
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
~ Blaise Pascal
We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
~ Bobby Rahal
I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
~ Brad Feld