Quotes About Adaptation

Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

I made songs in the late '90s and the early new millennium that didn't succeed very well, but songs that I made in the late '80s, early '90s, they stood the test of time. I respect those songs for keeping me relevant.

The world doesn't stop spinning for anybody.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That's the key.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.

Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

I remember, when I first rapped, I was writing raps. I don't write raps at all; I stopped early. I don't know - it seems like every day I find something a little bit easier.

It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.