Quotes About Adaptation

We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.

When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

TV is going to be more tailored to you, and the traditional experience of coming in in the middle of a show will be part of the past.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.

Each state is a unique laboratory of democracy, and California Republicans need to create a party tailored to the people of California.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Sometimes you climb the mountain, and you fall and fail. Maybe there is a different path that will take you up. Sometimes a different mountain.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.

Bloggers and stores and publications and brands and houses all need to sort of take a deep breath and relax because no one is going away. The brands aren't going away. The designers, bloggers, publications aren't going away.

The game has slowed down for me. It's so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.

The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the rapidly changing ways in which people shop. It was one of the things that drew me to the company.

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.