Quotes About Adaptation

We've seen a million versions of the Peter Parker radioactive-spider origin story. We've seen Thomas and Martha Wayne at the opera... over and over again in movies and media, and I think we're ready for something new.

There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I'm sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

There's always ways to improve your game and be more dangerous and dynamic.

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we can at least still understand each other.

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'