Quotes About Adaptation

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

The Premier League used to be two teams going for the title, but it has come on a long way since then.

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful.

When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.

I think what I've found is that in IndyCar, the balance is a bit more all over the place compared with Formula 1! You have to get used to that and work around it. Again, as a driver, you can help the situation by the way you brake and apply the throttle to make the balance better.

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

F2 cars have downforce; they're quick. But it's difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that's going on once you're in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.