Quotes About Adaptation

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who's transformed herself in so many different ways and worked with so many amazing actors and directors. If I was gonna model my career after somebody's, it would definitely be hers.

It affected even our neurosurgical department in a way where our neurosurgical floor has now been transformed into a COVID-19 patient-only floor.

The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?

I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it's great, we love it - that's what play and stimulation are.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.

I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.