Quotes About Adaptation

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Once I reached about 14 or 15, I started to steady myself and get into a midfield role and carried that on until I was 17. Then I dropped into right-back, and I have played there ever since.

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

I've never really been in a steady place.

It's just been this incredible steady climb, but I've seen a company that believes in me and has let me make mistakes, has let me grow and evolve and try and find new and inventive ways to use me. I feel like I came up through the farm system.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

I looked at Randy White... I looked at Klecko. I looked at Gino Marchetti. I looked at a lot of players. Bob Lilly. There are players I looked at over the years when I was a young player and tried to steal a little bit from their game and fit it into my game. And Joe Klecko was someone I thought was a bear to deal with.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

I talk to a lot of European coaches. I got friends over there that I steal stuff from, talk to, maybe have them look at what we're doing and say, 'Hey, what would you do differently?'

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

A screenplay adaptation of my 'Punktown' novel 'Health Agent' has been making the rounds. The screenplay was written by my friend, singer/songwriter Walter Egan of 'Magnet & Steel' fame!

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.