Quotes About Adaptation

If you do not move in synchronization with time, you will be left behind.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.