Quotes About Adaptation

Don't just be successful, but redefine success and then do it again.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

I hear from non-Afghan immigrants - Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs in France - all the time. These people have had to redefine their lives, which is what my family went through when we came to the U.S. in 1980.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

In the beginning of my Rutgers journey, I had to learn fast that I would have to continue to redefine success. I had to understand that things would not just come to me.

I'm just super into redefining things.

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

I was a redhead when I first came to America.

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change - this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

You're not always going to be able to run in and blast someone out. Sometimes it might be different lines and lengths, change-ups or reductions in pace.

I should not become redundant or jaded.

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

Reed Richards in 'Fantastic Four,' to me, was a huge character departure from, like, 'That Awkward Moment' or anything that I'd just done before that.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.