Quotes About Adaptation

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

Everything takes meticulous planning and nothing works out the way it's supposed to.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

There used to be times when you didn't see Indians on television or if you did it was the corner shop guy in 'EastEnders,' but now they're not as stereotypical and we've managed to fit in and blend really well. England does a great job of doing that.

We've seen guys in the sport, like Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, who have actually benefited from the captaincy.

I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn't understand why we didn't put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, 'Tell me again - what's Wi-Fi?'

If you go back to Season 1 of 'The Office,' Steve Carell's character is a lot different.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling.