Quotes About Adaptation

Every climb is different. The Dawn Wall was so dry and aggressive that my fingers would dry out to the point where they would crack. So I actually had to add as much moisture as possible.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

It's very Finnish to think you can't make it outside Finland.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

How do you stay married 47 years? You are probably apart 20 of them. You get fired, move to another job. She would raise the kids and come six months later. Just start all over again. New romance.

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

Whatever's meant to be, will be. I'm a firm believer in that and I'll make it work.

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it's always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.

At times you are going to miss people. When that happens, others have to come to the front and show the calibre that brought them to the club in the first place.

I never really got taught to be a striker in the first place and then I never got taught how to be a lone striker.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.

I experienced first-hand the degeneration of the poldermodel in full force.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I take to acting like a fish to water.

With rivers, you don't have a lot of room to work, and with the bigger fish that I'm catching, you might have just a few feet to work with.

I always say that I've grown little flaps on a stage and I've got these little gills that open, because on the stage I'm in my element and I'm like a fish that's come out when I'm on land, which is filming. I'm never quite as comfortable as I am on the stage.