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Quotes About Adaptation

It is clearly a bad idea to try to just move games from other platforms directly over, but I'm sure we will see a lot of it, especially as the handsets surpass the hardware capabilities of previous generation consoles.
~ John Carmack
To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.
~ John Garfield
I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.
~ Cody Bellinger
Paulinho will surprise many people. If he does not fit at Barca, he would at Atletico.
~ Filipe Luis
After my crash I never doubted it would be hard but I would be lying to say this new life has been a surprise to me.
~ Alex Zanardi
As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
~ Bryce Dessner
I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
~ Martin Garrix
Every season is always a surprise.
~ Carey Price
I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
~ Victor Garber
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
~ Paula Radcliffe
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
~ Nancy Gibbs
After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith
I want to keep looking for roles that have an element of surprise.
~ Tahir Raj Bhasin
That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a straight line. There's usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it's on you to adapt.
~ Gordon Hayward
I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.
~ Jordi Alba
I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.
~ Chloe Kim
When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.
~ Sergio Aguero
Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.
~ Radamel Falcao
I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.
~ Mike McCready
I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
~ Dakota Fanning
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
~ Carol Bartz
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
~ Julia Barr
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
~ Greg Ginn