Quotes About Adaptation

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.'

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I can adapt my game to anyone, whether it's Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, or Batista.

You can be in India bowling at 90mph and it doesn't matter because the wickets are flat and the batsmen are really good.

I don't like bowling on turning wickets because on turning wickets, most balls would just beat the batsmen. On flat wickets you can plan - when to bowl sliders, when to bowl googly.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

My first school is gone - turned into flats.

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.

I learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham. I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

I have to be flexible in my role, batting and bowling.

You just need to constantly stay flexible, re-adjust, and figure out how you get done when you need to get done in the changing environment that you're in.

They were looking for boys who could speak with an English accent for the movie 'Lord of the Flies.' I had been abroad enough so I knew that accent.