Quotes About Adaptation

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.