Quotes About Adaptation

You find that other piece that matches yours, that completes yours, and you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smoothly, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection. You make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing over the small angles that don't.

Something like this changes you, it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different.

It's different from what he expected, but certainly not worse. Sometimes things happen in life, and we just have to accept them.

keep your head down, try to blend in, and don't get on anyone's bad side. You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.

I begged my mother to not allow them to take it. We did our best, but unfortunately, I had to lose my right leg.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

We don't want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.