Quotes About Adapting

They're too young to understand how much of life is shaped by never the same.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

If the shoe fits, wear it.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

I realized that part of my struggle was in wishing things were different:

I'm not being spiteful, I'm trying to figure out how to live with this new reality.

During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn't even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.

I think I'd prefer to write something more youth-orientated, or something to do with people in their 20s or even 30s. 'EastEnders' spans so many generations that I think I'd find it difficult, but I'd love to have a go.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

The entrepreneurial spirit has moved from the garage in high-tech to the kitchen in food.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.