Quotes About Adaptation

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.

I can't open doors that aren't open. But if a door opens, I would be happy to walk through.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Obviously when you join a team everything is new and you have to get to know the people and how they operate.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

I think robotics is a really hard problem - to make robots that operate in sort of arbitrary environments, like a big conference room with chairs and stuff.

I'm from a generation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our battleground was where we learned. It's not like the old generation where they used to train and train and train, and then suddenly an operation would come up, and they'd go on it.

I had a shoulder problem during my career when I changed my service action and needed an operation.

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn't even have a language to describe back then.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.

With any huge change, you need to expect and accept that people will have their own opinions and feel the need to express them.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.