Quotes About Adaptation

When the digital revolution was approaching, we were scared. It was so new to all of us but we when we took it over, it was so convenient because we took it head on.

I tried to change my style a few years ago because people didn't like the over-the-top thing.

Overall there's going to be things I'm not great at.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it's done.

There is still so much room for me to get better. Everyone in this sport evolves so quickly. You could take six months off and come back to a totally different game. That's why I'm always in the gym working. Even if I don't have a fight lined up, I'm still in there working to improve my overall game.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

I gotta work on my overall game.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

Every day I have this crazy schedule that happened overnight - it's a lot to process.

You don't just forget things overnight.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.