Quotes About Adaptation

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.

In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.