Quotes About Adaptation

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.