Quotes About Adaptation

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In '09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.

My throwing motion is what it is.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.

We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground.

I got used to throwing a lot of lobs, got used to finding shooters, finding cutters. Each year at Duke I have had to score in different spots. I think that has helped me so much.

We practice throughout the week throwing jump balls, throwing fades, throwing all these little things. But when the game comes, you never know what's going to come up.

I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

Unfortunately, I'm heat intolerant. I tend not to go in heat, I avoid the bath, I have lukewarm showers - and now I am throwing myself into the heat of Dubai and trying to run.

I came out of a Canadian high school where the hardest people were throwing was in the 70-mph range - 70-75 mph, maybe. I found that getting to pro ball was overwhelming.

Of course there's room for improvement all the time, throwing on time, throwing accurately and being able to move off of the spot and still find anther part of the progression, and that's something I need to work on.

You have to take whatever situation is thrown at you and make the best decision at the time.