Quotes About Adaptation

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

Surprisingly, dialogues haven't been a problem for me. Even in 'Savyasachi,' it was easy.

All of a sudden, my picture's in the paper, or I'm making a music video, and it's still the most surreal experience. I thought you could learn, and you would acclimatise, but I really haven't.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

L'ennemi d'hier est l'ami d'aujourd'hui. Il n'y a pas de politique raisonnable sans capacité d'oubli.

My ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat. --Will Rogers

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

I've found that there are only two kinds [of slang] that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.

No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.