Quotes About Adaptation

I couldn't even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.

Never been in the habit to look back.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

As a kid, I didn't have a shower at home, and I was used to taking bucket baths, so I went back to that old habit.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.

Anything to shake you out of the normal habits is good.

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.

People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America.

It wouldn't be the Avatarverse without some hairstyle changes, now would it?

It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.

I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

I understand Christmas, and I understand Easter. But Halloween is one of those things where, if you don't grow with it? The French, they tried Halloween for a few years, and I think they're dropping it.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly - although it's still not a Halo, it's still different to what I'm used to.