Quotes About Adaptation

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Someone can tell you something a million times, but if you don't know what they're talking about, it's hard to adjust and even more difficult to become a believer.

In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.

I never thought in a million years I would be in a girl group, so I can't look too deep into the future.

When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.

I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

The seas are rising, and millions of people are going to be affected by that - and already are. We have to make sure there's enough food, water, and air.

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

For me, my friends, my family, myself, we all grew up as Bucks fans just being in the hometown. I think my friends have converted into Miami Heat fans and I've done the same obviously. We're not too big on Milwaukee anymore.

I enjoyed playing in L.A. and being a Laker. But I couldn't be happier playing in Milwaukee. This has been an amazing situation to come into.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

I have always been a good mimic.

When I'm around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

TV is all about learning to write in someone else's voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own project, they assume you don't have your own voice; you're just a good mimic.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.