Quotes About Adaptation

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

I love Minnesota. The cold is fine with me, being from New Jersey.

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting.

When you start a new job, a lot of times everybody's been there a long time and so you think, 'Oh, it's going to take me a while to make friends and do all that.'

It's the NFL. It's simple. You either get it better or you have to look for a new job, so I think we all understand that.

Every time you go to a new team, every time, it's like going to a new job. You have to go to your coworkers and tell them your story. 'Hey, are you married? Do you have kids?' I got tired of telling a lie. I really got tired of that.

These people you grew up with, they're important to you in your life. They've been there for you. They're your friends. They've seen you make it. They really are happy for you. But they see you with this new life, with a new set of friends, and it can be hard to balance that.

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is the same.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

I mean, I work in television, so every day is like the end of your career and then each day is a new one.

Coming out of a club and going into a new one is never easy.