Quotes About Adaptation

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

But maybe someday I'll be reporting on the sidelines instead of dancing on the sidelines.

Even if I have a successful and plentiful N.B.A. career, someday I am going to go back and try to be a big league pitcher.

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But if my path is to go someplace else, hey, I'm there.

You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

I've been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.