Quotes About Adaptation

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.

There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.

You have to pretend like you know what you're doing before you know what you're doing.

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.