Quotes About Adaptation

Whether it is in duels with defenders or against keepers, I use a lot of what I learnt and perfected playing futsal all those years ago.

In old times, not many keepers could play with their feet, but modern football requires those skills because it's changed.

You see it more and more: managers asking their keepers to be the 11th field player.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Technologically things have changed, new softwares have come up. I am happy keeping myself abreast with time.

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

I want to be what Kenny G. and Carlos Santana were, but for this day and age.

I was born in London but, after my dad passed away, we moved to Kent for a fresh start.

I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

The spacing is so much different in the NBA... There's more spacing, more 1-on-1. I got more space to do work - something I didn't get to show at Kentucky.

I wasn't in the right place at Kentucky, and I don't think I ever would have been comfortable in college.

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.

From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.

We Need To Talk About Kevin,' as an adaptation, was pretty major. It's a long book, and it's in letters, so it was a real editing experience to boil that down and make it cinematic. I learned a lot doing that film.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.