Quotes About Adaptation

When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

I couldn't shoot. When I went to play in Europe, I learned to shoot better. I could jump, so people would just back off of me.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm not like the other guys. Maybe I'm not as fast as them. I cannot jump as high as them. But it's been 11 years for me now. You just play different.

It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in the sand.

After 23 June 2016, the U.K. has to reorient national policy on many dimensions.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

I didn't get Facebook until I was maybe a junior or senior in high school.

The jury system is one of the few ideas from the 13th century which still flourishes in the 21st century.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

My first four fights in amateur at middleweight, and the first four professional were at welterweight. And I just kind of went down from there.

I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

My records are not informed by whether the music is going to work live. I just kind of make the music I want to make and worry about how to deconstruct it for a band after.

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.