Quotes About Adaptation

I've watched the dynamics of music completely change to where we've sold tapes, we've sold CDs, then everything started becoming 'music is free' now. In a perfect world, Napster wouldn't have come along. But the world isn't perfect, and when it changes, you have to adapt.

As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

While digital wallets are paving the way for the future of payments, you still need to assess whether or not they'll work for your business. If your target audience are less tech-savvy or you're primarily a cash-only business, it may not be worth investing too much into accepting digital payments.

It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

The ball comes into the box and you have no idea how it is going to fall. You cannot have thoughts in your head, like, 'It is on my left, I am not going to hit it.' You just have to take it in your stride and hit the target. That is exactly what I try to do.

Our targeted methods change depending on who you are as an individual, not a model representation of an individual.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.