Quotes About Adaptation

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.

I am fine-tuning certain aspects of my game. Beforehand, I was guilty of doing a lot of my best work away from the goal. But now I am getting in between the sticks and putting the ball in the back of the net.

If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

I became stiff as a safety, and so I had to learn to move like a corner and think like a corner.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

Powerbombing someone on the apron or into the turnbuckle, those are not moves Sting and I grew up with.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not work out that way. Markets, technology, and businesses change too quickly to put portfolios on autopilot.

Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

The thing is, Stoke City pulled me out of a situation where I was not playing, where I was not happy, and that was in Germany. They have breathed new life into me.