Quotes About Adaptation

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

If you're a retailer, and you want to sell the same products that Amazon is selling, well, Amazon is going to have a better consumer experience. Better prices. You have no chance to be successful. If it's not completely different, close up, go home, give up.

When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest.

We used to be such prima donnas.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

I'm really a cook. I used to be the opposite - I used to go out a lot - but now I primarily cook.

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.

As my primary language was English, I had to work on my Hindi. I wasn't so comfortable with it.

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.