Quotes About Adaptation

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game.

Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.

You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring, …It is a different story.

Shape yourself before the world shapes you.