Quotes About Adaptation

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.

Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable. That's not been my experience. I always want to try something new.

One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.

Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.

My first U.S. Open main draw, it was a big stadium and I wasn't really used to it.

What we have been doing at Tottenham with my staff is a reaction to the mistakes we made at Chelsea. We did not do everything wrong there, but we could have done better.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

I didn't find it hard to settle at United because there was a great bunch of players, great staff, and a good atmosphere at the club.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

In the early years I had no real plan. I figured it out as I went, which is easier to do when you don't have a lot of staff and overhead. Back then I believed my job was just to create great-looking shoes. That wasn't true. I learned that the shoes needed to fit, be comfortable, and not fall apart.

One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

I just used to back my instincts and go with the flow. Lately, I've realised that once you play at the highest level you've got to take that maturity to another stage.

A play called 'Bichchu' with Om Puri in the main role was going to be staged and I was working backstage. An actor failed to turn up for rehearsals and the director asked me to do that role instead. I agreed and would go to the beach to rehearse my dialogues as I had no place to stay those days.

We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I'd like to take up K. Balachander's films and do that.