Quotes About Adaptation

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

In 2010 I had to learn to walk again when I had my legs made the same length, after living with one leg two inches longer than the other until the age of 51.

I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

Just because you're inclined to do something one way doesn't mean that's the 'right' way.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.'

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

When I was coming up, a freestyle wasn't a freestyle unless everything was completely improvised, in-the-moment and right there, and you had to incorporate various elements of what was going on in the room on the day.

Just being able to incorporate other sports into my game has definitely helped me out.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.