Quotes About Adaptation

I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.

In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Change is rarely comfortable.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.