Quotes About Adaptation

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Everything goes with age. Your eyesight, your energy levels.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

There are different facets to everyone. When you're at work, you're a different person. When you're with your friends, you're a different person.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in the NFL. Really, what you did last year or 2010, as we know, doesn't factor.

Sport can change so quickly where confidence is such a big factor.

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

For me to able to deliver on a consistent basis abroad there are a lot of factors beyond just me that need to go into it.

When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.

You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

I've always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don't change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.