Quotes About Adaptation

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

Sometimes I'll present a work to the public and listen to the responses-then pull it back, shape it, and put it back out.

The status quo cannot work.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

One must work with time and not against it.

The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.