Quotes About Adapting

I'm not saying that kids today have everything, but with the Internet, it's like, you have it there, so use it! I know a bunch of kids who are into cassette tapes now. Cassette tapes suck! Why not use your iPod?

I've grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

You have to play more hands than usual to be successful in tournament poker. While a conservative approach can help you squeak into the money, the only way to win is to mix it up and get involved with a wider range of starting hands.

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

I'm a Midwestern girl; I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton until I was ten years old. Then my whole life changed.

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.

The worst thing about disease is the uncertainty. Humans are capable of adapting to anything as long as they know. It's the hopeless floundering that drives people crazy.

It's a change, and I don't like changes, especially changes I don't understand.' 'Life is change,' the Fool observed lacidly. 'And death is an even greater change. I think we must resign ourselves to change, Fitz.' 'I'm tired of resigning myself to things. My entire life has been one long resignation.

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

It's fair to say I don't know what I'm doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn't always follow a plan.

I now understand that we learned these songs and stories not just to teach us how to behave but because we would be living out variations of them over and over again throughout our lives.

I realized that life was too short for anyone honestly and thoroughly to outgrow anything, but it was clear that some people were making more of an effort than others.

for you belong to the old set, and I to the new; you will get on the best, but I shall have the liveliest time of it

A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.

The ultimate freedom lies in knowing everything, including you, is in a state of flux; you're never still, you're always 'nexting';

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.