Quotes About Adaptation

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

As you grow older, you change.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

When I was playing with ADO Den Hag in the youth teams at that time I was quite strong because I was used to older people.

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.

I've been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, 'That's not normal,' because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn't matter which girl, which age.

Basically, I try to let the song dictate what guitar I use. If it's a really loud, crazy song, I'll pull out the cheapest, oldest guitar I own, one that feeds back easily. But most of the time, I just use whatever's around.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

If someone told me a couple years ago, 'You're going to be deep into show jumping with horses,' I would be like, I didn't even know that's an Olympic sport.

I've played in many different environments and at the highest level at an Olympic Games.

I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.