Quotes About Adaptation

True development does not respect comfort.

In 1774, John Adams wrote in his diary, "We have not men fit for the times. We are deficient in genius, education, in travel, fortune—in everything.

Successful change can only come in the context of a clear understanding of what may never change, what the organization stands for. This is what Peter Drucker calls the organization's culture. Culture, as he uses the term, is that which cannot, will not, and must not change.

The catalyst is important because the project is always in a state of flux. Someone who can help a project to jell is worth two people who just do work.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

You just feel a little odd when you don't get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

I'm a fan of odd meters. For example, I've decided to sing 'No Business Like Show Business,' but I'll be doing it in constantly changing 5/4, 7/4 and 11/4 time signatures. I've found a way to make that work.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.