Quotes About Adaptation

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

If I have to return to London, I will try to make things in a different way in order so that happened in the past won't be repeated again.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

I don't like repeating things and look out for work that could challenge me.

Everything repeats itself. There ain't but so many notes on the scale, there ain't but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain't but so many beats. So things come back to you a different way. Don't matter what they call it.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

Challenges are fun. It's no fun being repetitive.

I loved playing in England. But after a few years, I didn't find it challenging enough. I wouldn't say I was bored, but it was becoming too repetitive - playing with and against the same players year after year.

When I finished playing, I didn't think I would be able to replace the buzz you feel at kick-off, but when the light on top of the camera turns red, and you're about to go live to the nation, it is a very similar feeling.

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Someone younger at heart should replace you, and that should be you. I'm willing to. I'm willing to become younger. I try to reinvent myself every few years anyway.

It's difficult to say you can replace Franck Ribery one on one with another player.

It's impossible to replace him. You will not find another Messi, but you can train a team without having the best in the world.

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.