Quotes About Adaptation

We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes, but it ultimately seemed like the cube was the right shape.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

I didn't speak English very well, but I studied day and night so I'd be ready for my first break. When Hitchcock interviewed me I didn't understand a word be said, but I had been told that he liked to tell jokes so I watched him carefully and when I thought he was waiting for a laugh... I laughed.

The Heartbreakers got kind of stuck with these hits and we had to play them like the records, which is a great balance too and we were really good at that.

I don't want to lead the league in infield hits because, at some point in my career, I can't get away with it anymore.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

I used to be a hitter when I was in high school.

I mean, I think I pride myself on being a good hitter so if I have to, my job changes and I have to adapt to do that.

As hitters, if something's working, you don't change it.

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.

Hitting is not an exact science.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.