Quotes About Adaptation

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.

I had a set schedule since I was 15, since I started playing junior hockey. When you don't have that sometimes you try to find something new and it's difficult.

If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it's about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

Even if you've being playing together for years, there'll always be something new. You're constantly back phrasing, front phrasing, singing faster, singing slower.

Last year when I was playing for Hamphsire, Delhi Capitals asked me if I was interested in playing for them. I took my time and I thought it's an opportunity for me to learn something new. To take my game forward, to take my T20 game forward.

I always want to be the person that's able to try something new.

Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.

I constantly need something new and challenging.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.

When you are repeating your co-star, it's good to bring something new to the equation on screen.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'