Quotes About Adaptation

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

I don't think there's a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

When I'm pressured, I have to click into survival mode.

When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.

Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.