Quotes About Adaptation

Some people say to me, 'You don't sound very Irish.' It's because I have this tendency to iron out my accent: not because I'm ashamed of it but because it makes my life easier if I don't keep having to repeat myself.

When you are successful, there is this tendency to repeat the elements that we believe have worked in a certain film. Then it becomes formulaic, and there is no getting back.

The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a new strategy, a new slogan.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks like, or how they look at the top of a pass route. Guys have tendencies. I try to understand what they do, which allows me to be successful.

I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

In India, the wicket tends to get a bit slower once the ball gets old, but in England, it's pretty much the same whether it's new ball or old ball.

I guess I'm the sort who, if I find something comfortable, tends to push against it.

My pinkie tends to pop out of place a lot while I'm playing - I just pop it back in. I notice it when I move my hand and it feels stiff. I mean, it's been happening my whole life. It's never broken - just pops out of place real easy.

I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.