Quotes About Adaptation

I need to play three or four weeks to get into a rhythm. I'm not like Tiger. I can't play one week and win.

When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a learning curve there, and I did have to learn some of that.

I'm one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We're all very close. We're an interesting family, and we moved a lot when I was younger. I feel like we are very tight knit because we had to sort of jump and leave places and start over again and again.

Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.

Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.

They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on running plays.

So the Madonna thing, I wrote a song with Diplo, she liked it, tweaked it and then made it her own and it became 'Hold Tight.'

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

If you resist change, you resist life.

The problem with large corporations and their competitors is that they subscribe to the same industry magazines, get the same body of research and even hire the same people. The

Prototyping is about doing small experiments at low cost, using what you have to hand.

prototyping lets you make your mistakes and discoveries as soon as possible in the development process, so you can change things and move on.

Becoming switched on is about forgetting the "this is how we've always done it" mentality and wiping the slate clean

It is wishful thinking to expect change without factoring in a few failures along the way.

As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them.

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.

The challenge is to find a new way of working that complements our lives rather than compromises them, striking a balance between how we would like to live our lives and how we would like to work.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you've got it built, they'll want something new. —Steve Jobs

Every failure is a learning experience and it should be seen as part of the process rather than the enemy.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?

Conformity spawns conformity.