Quotes About Adaptation

There is no such thing as standing still.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.

I had the bottom rib broken and pushed in and it took an inch or two off. It really hurt when I lay down but if I was standing up or sitting it was OK. It wasn't horrifying.

I've always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it's helped me see things I didn't previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock 'n' roll songs and making commercials out of them, but from a songwriter's standpoint, I don't mind because it helps pay my rent.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

I got used to playing at half-empty stadiums at Al Sadd. There was no one in the stands in Qatar.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

I enjoy doing standup, but when I'm 50, I don't know if I'll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.