Quotes About Adaptation

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

I have bowled with the new ball before when I came into the Indian team in the T20 formats.

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run things like wikis in open formats in order to a: start off with better ideas and then b: adapt to errors much faster than is possible with normal Whitehall systems.

Being a person that plays all three formats, I've probably done the most bubble days out of anyone.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

I don't want to be a shell of my former self.

I used to have a standing as a cartoon schlepper, now I'm only a former cartoon schlepper.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

From GP3 to Formula 2, it's obviously a step, but it's only a step on driving I would say. Here from Formula 2 to Formula 1, it's a huge step on driving because we have nearly 400 BHP more, with a lot more downforce. So it's a completely different car.

There is no specific formula that you need to follow to do well on certain wickets.

I don't want to just stay desperately in Formula 1. That's not my style, that's not what I'm looking for. After 10 years in Formula 1 that's not what I'm after.

Things can change very quickly in Formula 1.

You should never lose the formula that worked for you from the beginning, no matter how big you get.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

But, being away from Formula One for a whole year, I think it's not easy to come back into Formula One because people forget very quickly about you - it was really hard to go back.

I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.

Business is not my forte.

For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.