Quotes About Adaptation

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Change is hard, but change is good.

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.