Quotes About Adaptation

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

The BBC should mirror the country.

I can't have no assists and five turnovers. If you have no assists and five turnovers, you have to look yourself in the mirror and figure out how to adjust.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

If I have misplaced a pass, I want to know why I've done that or whether I could have looked at a different pass.

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

When I was in Germany I never played like this, so defensive - almost a left-back, but that is good for me because defensive work was something I missed in Germany.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.

I actually missed some assignments at Kentucky because my teachers were like, 'Didn't you check your e-mail?' I was like, 'I don't really know how to use e-mail.'

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'

I'm missing an index finger.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing.

When you lose someone that's really important to you, I feel like it's something that never really goes away. It's almost learning how to live with an empty feeling; it's weird. Something's always missing, but you kind of get used to it.