Quotes About Adaptation

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control.

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.