Quotes About Adaptation

With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.

A round or a square product was easily made, except for an oval one, at that time when watch industry mainly relied on hand-made or semi-automatic equipments. It is like the printing and coat film of the mobile phone, which is difficult to realize counterpoint.

I drew these natural sponges for a while and gave them googly eyes, and it didn't come together until I drew a sink sponge one day. I thought, 'This is the guy.' He's the square peg, literally, in this world of animals.

Both players and coaches take time to understand each other. Frequent changes bring that rapport to square one.

At times, we, as coaches, try to shove guys as square pegs into round holes and keep hammering away.

You can't have square pegs in round holes. It's not just about getting talented footballers, it's about getting people who fit into my football.

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

It's important to reinvent yourself often, because if you don't, someone else will and squash you like a bug.

I used to be able to just walk into a gym cold and jump on the squat rack. But those days are gone.

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.

My life was always one year here, I squeezed out what I could from it, enjoyed it the most possible and changed. That was the way of life I had.

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.

I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

We look at the poor shots and ask why. Then we work on stability and balance. We're always trying to get the club in the little bit better position so we hit fewer poor shots.

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

There is nothing so stable as change.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.