Quotes About Adaptation

Changing the game is a mindset.

When you change team, and you have the right mindset and a coach who respects you, everything becomes easier.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.

When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.

I think our sport evolves as the talent evolves and the mindset evolves.

It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.

I changed my body, changed my mindset in the game, and I was able to accomplish a win while playing a completely different style of golf. And it's pretty amazing to see that. I hope it's an inspiration to a lot of people.

Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.

My mindset is to prepare myself to catch every day and adjust from there.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

My first car was a 2011 Mini Cooper, because I only learned to drive in 2010.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.