Quotes About Adaptation

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.