Quotes About Adaptation

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Domestic dogs thrive in the backyard and at the foot of the bed. Wolves thrive on the hunt in the country's wildlands.

It was great just to get Wolves training kit on and feel normal again.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I'm like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I'll be a woman and the next day a snake.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

It's not easy being a woman. Especially when you're a part-time one. You never really get used to it.

All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

I'm no songwriter because all of my popular songs have just been outgrowths of themes for the various pictures.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

Get mad, then get over it.

If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.