Quotes About Adaptation

Everybody makes a big deal about small ball. Well, I've guarded Anthony Davis every time I've played him, since he first came into the league.

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

Getting injured gave me the opportunity to re-examine some small things like my serves.

I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.

I'd heard Dallas described as a 'big, small town' before, even before I moved. As a kid from an actual small town in Iowa, I was never sure what to make of the description.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

Went from Milwaukee, a small town in Milwaukee, to Kentucky. Nobody thought I'd survive there.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

I typically, with my work, like to approach it in a bigger way. That's sort of how I am. And I remember when I was getting into television, the handcuff that gets put on you right away, especially when you're a theater kid, is, 'Be smaller, be smaller, be smaller.'

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.

I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

When you're smaller, you kind of learn how to do other things. You have to work a little bit harder.