Quotes About Adaptation

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.