Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Jackson

So we have to try to adapt to and get in front of the situation.

Martina Hingis

Definitely anticipation has always been a very big part of my game -- to know and read my opponent -- but it's not easy. Even if I play a Grand Slam, I play girls I don't know, so I have to adapt very quickly.

The technology has been around for six or seven years, but the idea of people adapting to it has really taken hold in the last year.

The suites could either agree to keep (their policy) with the university's policy for the weeknights or they could adapt their own policy. It is up to the residents of the suite to reach a decision on that.

Jorge Rodriguez

The Suffrage Law would need to be adapted to the 1999 Constitution to provide for some defense of minority's representation.

The space that we build is going to need to be flexible and adaptable so that we don't build it and have to use it for the exact purpose for the next 45 years because we can't change it. We want flexibility.

The thing that Notre Dame does well is it confuses teams with the attack it runs. They move a lot of hitters around. We have to adapt to that.

Harmony Korine

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

Amir Khan

I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots.

Technological innovation always precedes demand. It's not necessarily what the market wants or is willing to adapt to,

Jamie Langenbrunner

It was a little tighter than I thought it would and what you're used to, but I think we adapted pretty well and played with some discipline.

The steak and chicken fell out of the diet. It's like going to the grocery store and (seeing) there are only a few yucky things in the store. You adapt by using what's there.

The stronger the vote, the more it says that New Yorkers endorse the mayor's way of managing the city and its problems, ... And if the public says, 'we want his way to continue,' other elected officials may think, 'maybe we have to adapt ourselves to the mayor's way, too.'

The structured finance industry is enjoying unprecedented growth, undergoing rapid transformation as best of breed techniques begin to converge. Principia SFP is of tremendous value to our clients in that it cost-effectively meets the common, straight-through processing needs of structured finance operations, yet is adaptive enough to address the evolving structuring and workflow requirements of many different vehicle types.

James Frain

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

As Indian companies strive to be globally competitive, they have realized the importance of investing in information technology and networking to adapt quickly to rapidly shifting market transitions,

That ticket holders were refused entry for two days continuously reflects the (Disneyland) management is lack of the capability to adapt to changing situation. The management is disappointing.

That's how you get to learn pitchers, and he is adapting to that very well. Brett is very astute at what he's doing. He's taking it seriously and getting a good read.

We had to change a lot of things with her. Once she learned and adapted to our system, it was like opening up and saying 'here you go.

This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.

What is most frustrating about U.S. protectionism is that it protects no one, ... Rather than encouraging engagement, it allows an inefficient U.S. lumber industry to turn its back on a rapidly changing global marketplace. Protectionism removes the impetus for industry to invest, improve, adapt and be globally competitive.

Debbie Allen

The screenwriter's role was very instrumental, because it's difficult to take a stage play and adapt it for the screen.

What we are seeing is that, in the specialized nature of information economy, a college degree is increasingly important for employers. What's interesting is that even liberal arts majors are finding significant opportunities, since those are the folks who are best at critical thinking skills. They can adapt to any number of professions.

What this is, is taking the technologies that we already have at our fingertips, and making them adaptable to people once they're in the car.

Herbert Simon

What a person cannot do he will not do, no matter how much he wants to do it. Normative economics has shown that exact solutions to the larger optimization problems of the real world are simply not within reach or sight. ... the behavior of an artificial system may be strongly influenced by the limits of its adaptive capacities.

Stephen Jay Gould

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Whatever we do with the two, it will be what Wayne feels is appropriate and Paul feels appropriate. We have a foundation for it all but we can adapt to create a magic moment quickly.

Clarence Day

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways

We sing a variety of songs many people already know, songs like 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight,' 'Carolina in the Morning,' 'Get Happy' and many more, all written and adapted to our style of singing.

There's no cuddle corner anymore, and Germany is adapting to what's already common in Anglo-Saxon regions. It's surprising how quickly this has been happening.

Craig Johnson

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the business of selling recreational items. But kids today are moving away from traditional toys and toward electronics at a much younger age. Toys 'R' Us has to adapt to this shift and explore new areas of the business.

The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.