Quotes About Adaptation

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

If a fighter thinks he knows everything and stops trying to evolve, he's lost.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

I don't stick to a routine, because I like to mix things up, which stops training becoming boring and helps shock muscles into firing up.