Quotes About Adaptation

It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

Changing behaviour is a very slow process.

In the U.A.E., the wickets are on the slower side. You can't play through the line; you need to take your time and be patient.

I learnt the slower ball in the post-1992 period after I saw Franklin Stevenson of the West Indies in the county circuit. I would practice in the nets, hit people on the head, have the ball fly over the nets. I got it right after a lot of practice.

As a kid, I mostly played as a No 10. When I was really young, I played as a striker. But I grew a lot when I was older, and when I was 15, 16, I had a big growth, and so I changed a little bit and became slower.

For nine years, I was playing at more or less the same weight and I'm a little bit slower than I used to be. But I'm glad I have a couple of pounds more because I think it will help me in games for sure.

I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that's what I learned.

As I get slower and older, I'm going to shoot more threes.

Well, obviously it's clay. It's slower. You have to grind more. You move a lot more. You have to slide.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

Religions die slowly.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

I have to accept that my role is to gather the runs slowly. Kevin Pietersen is flamboyant, but that style doesn't work for me.

I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.