Quotes About Adaptation

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

How do I work? I grope.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.