Quotes About Adaptation

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Experience always enables you to handle pressure better.

It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it's part of my environment.

I think, to a certain extent, there is a pressure, although I don't think I've felt the pressure at Lyon more than I've felt at any other club I've played at.

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

You have to be able to deal with the pressures that playing for a big club like Hibs brings and it's not for everyone.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

We should be far more flexible about the way we play our cricket away from home. We can't just presume that what works at home will work away. We need to be more flexible and creative both in the way we play and the way we select.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that was going on out loud. To my phone! I don't do that anymore!

Without McFly, who are we? Trying to find out and pretend you're happy with that new version of you was really difficult.

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I used to be a pretty good player back in the day. But I don't play basketball too much anymore.