Quotes About Adaptation

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

That image is now associated with the Portuguese coaches: the ability to adapt, to arrive and win, to assemble good teams and good structures is undoubtedly one of our brands and I think that's the main fact for which we are most respected around the world.

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Life is all about the unexpected.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

T20 is a game where you must expect the unexpected.

Past 'Drag Race' alum that I've spoken to, their biggest advice to me was, 'Expect the unexpected,' and, 'There's no way that you can prepare for this,' so I thought I was at least ahead of the curve knowing that I wasn't prepared.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you're not always going to know the cards that you're going to be dealt.

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.