Quotes About Adaptation

One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

It comes easy to me to run. I picked a lot of it up from Germany. I had four-and-a-half years there, and I learned you have to be on the automatic button. Press it, and you go: you keep running, chasing and working.

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Before, sometimes if the ball was played over my head I wouldn't know where I was but now I feel a lot more comfortable. Sometimes I would be going forward when it really wasn't the right time to go too, but now I'm picking my moments better.

I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you listen to his greatest hits and learn the format of the songs, but don't try to play it note-for-note.