Quotes About Adaptation

Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.

WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

You should not think too much on things that do not work in your life, this can affect the gears of the things that work.

Turbulence breaks a tree's branches, but only tickles an eagle's wings.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.

It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don't work, and you can shave off the excess.

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the 'Oh my God, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie' and got around to doing a little bit of acting.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

I had to forget a lot of 'Star Wars' when I was making 'Dune.' It wasn't hard, though.

Star Wars' was derivative of 'Buck Rogers' and 'Flash Gordon,' wasn't it?

We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

People keep saying I'm westernizing Chinese food. No I'm not. McDonald's, KFC, Starbucks, have done it big time, way before me.

If you had a Starbucks that never sold coffee, you wouldn't keep the site open. It's not that we're abandoning sites, but we're saying, 'Let's go where there's HIV, focus our resources there.'

Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.

Initially I used to find it very awkward when people used to turn back and stare, but now I am used to it and love all the attention.

Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.