Quotes About Adaptation

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

It's time to realise that tradition is fantastic but if because of tradition and only tradition you lose everyone it's less fantastic so you have to keep some tradition to this sport of course but you also have to live in your century.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.

From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.

Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.