Quotes About Adaptation

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

'Que Sera Sera' had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman's beats and translate them into dance steps.

From the start, I held the pick in an unusual way. I used to bend my thumb way back in order to get a good angle for fast playing. I played that way for 10 years.

It's unusual when you get scripts not wanting to change things - I'm one of those actors who writers must hate as I'm always wanting to rewrite or swap bits about.

Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered.

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.

I've gone up and down in my weight - I know my body. And for me, it's easy to go up or down.

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.

I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.

My gravity is always towards original material but 'Gerald's Game,' I read it when I was nineteen years old, I got to the end and had gooseflesh up and down my arms and the back of my neck, I put it down and said 'That's one of my favourite Stephen King novels... it's also unfilmable.'

Instead of going into the kitchen all the time - I hate running up and down the stairs - I started using my Weber as a stovetop.

If you see me when I first burst onto the scene, you see how quickly I could turn for a big lad and how fast I was up and down the pitch. Then I started picking and choosing my time to go forwards because I was scared of my hamstring going or my knee not dealing with it.