Quotes About Adaptation

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

Your problems never cease. They just change.

Grass is not natural for me, but I am getting better. I have to focus on not falling, not injuring myself. I cannot take off as fast as I want to and I have problems braking.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.