Quotes About Adaptation

I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'

Most people say when they get on screen, the most successful acts are people who are just themselves and turn the volume up. But in my situation, I gotta turn the volume down.

I'm not chasing mail volume down because I'm going where we see growth. That's what we need to do.

Put on the game tape. The game tape speaks volumes because I'm in live action, I'm out there making reads, going through progressions, redirection protection, signaling hot routes, getting the offense in and out of the right play.

Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.

We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.

I'm trying so hard to win or make the right play or whatever, that you know, it kind of comes off as being selfish, but I'm not, I'm just used to being the guy.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

You can't run a business just by selling one thing.

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

I was down to an 11-handicap before running for the Senate.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

When I started my career on TV, I never knew how my role or character was going to shape up or turn out to be. It was a challenging role for me and I learnt a lot from my senior actors.

When I first went into the senior game I was more of an attaching player to begin with.

I'd known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I'd long been accustomed to his sense of humor.