Quotes About Adaptation

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.