Quotes About Adaptation

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

Never work with kids or animals.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.