Quotes About Adaptation

And sometimes when you're a general manager for the first time, you're going to make some mistakes. The key is, did you learn from those mistakes?

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations.

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.

Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

Genetically I think I'm more equipped for long distances than high-intensity sprints.

I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'

I love my genre films, but I think when I get older, the way I tell it will be very different to how I told it when I was in my mid-twenties, which is how old I was when I made the first 'Saw.'

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.

In Hollywood it's really tough to change genres; you have to re-prove yourself.

Generally I always take genuine criticism. It's part of football.