Quotes About Adaptation

Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

I have a little bit of experience going in and playing a character - I played a character on 'Smallville' that had been established for decades and decades before I took it.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

You're able to see situations over and over again and just become comfortable in different decision-making situations. I think that comes with experience.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

When I first came to Arsenal, I didn't know how to defend.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

It's good to defend a player that's as fast as me because I have to learn.

I played a lot of times at the beginning at Ajax as a left full back with a fantastic combination with Mark Overmars but I think as a central defender and a leader in the back it was my best role I think.

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.