Quotes About Adaptation

It is important always to make full use of opportunities that come your way, and at the same time, it is important to not just cope with the challenges but try and convert each challenge into an opportunity.

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

When I got out, there weren't too many job opportunities for snipers.

A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.

Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

What's important is that you build your company to be able to capture the opportunity as it comes.

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'

The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

To be a great NFL player, you have to know what your opponent is doing, not just opposite your position but what they're doing all over the field. All the contingencies.

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition's mistakes and try to learn from them.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'