Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been a while since we've played a team like that. They are an in-your-face, aggressive team, and we needed to adapt to that. It took us a while to get going.

Leif Johansson

In Volvo's most recent quarterly report we announced measures to adapt the level of Group costs, and since then signs of a weakening market have not declined,

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Sebastian Thrun

In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.

Paul Davis

It's very frustrating. It definitely hurts us some. We just have to go play and just adapt to how the refs are calling it. Every game is different. We can't rely on the refs to make a call or not make one.

I do not claim to have the answers. All I claim to have is an open mind that is willing to adapt to new information as it becomes available.

He can be a pitcher within a pitcher over the course of a game. He can adapt to the way batters adapt to him,

Beatrice Lillie

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -- adapting one-self to circumstances -- and a sense of humor.

Jose Carreras

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.

John Corey Whaley

If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

Albert Costa

I came here two days ago and I haven't adapted to the surface yet,

I don't think there's long-term value in saying here's another pipe to the same old TV. You may see Yahoo working with networks to adapt content or related content on TV to make it more appropriate to the Web.

Marsha Blackburn

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

I don't think they are taking away the hitting or the battles. They don't want anybody to hold and hook and use their sticks. It's something we adapted to during the season, and they're reinforcing it in the playoffs to make sure the game is still played the same way.

(The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I had read three different short stories of hers. And so what I wanted to do was to find a way to link all of her stories together. It ended up definitely being an adaptation, but also our own sort of overall story. We were just trying to imagine the life of that character.

Tsui Hark

The film is adapted from a novel, and in fact the novel's seven warriors are all male,

The companies that can quickly adapt their business models, product and service offerings, and industry relationships to meet the industry's changing dynamics will be the ones to succeed in the long run. And with all these changes taking place, the companies that stay too close to their comfort zone will most likely get swamped by the innovators.

David Belle

The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.

The good thing is that we can move a lot of our kids around and still be all right. Our girls really adapt well to different positions and that's certainly a strength. We're going to play with that for a while and hopefully we'll find a lineup that will give us a good chance in the long run.

Ian Bell

The guys adapted well early on, when it did a little bit, and overall it was a good day for us.

Bob Willis

The industry is right on course and sailing smoothly. The only clouds we see are ASPs (average selling prices) continuing to fall, but the industry is adapting well by lowering manufacturing costs and branching out into added-value markets.

Jared Diamond

The Indian civilizations of Central and North America remained entirely without pack animals; and it took thousands of years for the corn that evolved in Mexico's climate to become modified into a corn adapted to the short growing season and seasonally changing day-length of North America.

Mark Billingham

All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'

The children are not intimidated at all by the foreign languages. At first, there were a few raised eyebrows, but now it seems everyday to them. We all know that children are much quicker to adapt than adults.

The goal tonight was to adapt to their style of play. We wanted to stop them in transition and make them execute.

a million years to adapt to this heat. We water only new plants as they're getting established.

Will Davis

All the guys coming back know coach Branson and Corry. I don't think there'll be any trouble adapting to their style because I imagine a lot of it will be pretty similar to what coach Greene did.

Ellen Goodman

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

All I will say is it's better to win ugly than to lose pretty. It's the mark of a good team that we can adapt and do what we needed to do to win.

Air New Zealand will become a nimble and fast moving airline, able to rapidly adapt to change more quickly than its competitors. I am determined to implement the necessary measures to ensure this happens.

Ron Hill

These are interesting stories out there and they've adapted well to all of the turmoil overseas,

Peter Gade

This is a good tournament, everybody could see how the others adapt to the new system. To me, it's OK, because I am an attacking player. And the new rule is good for attacks. But I don't think it is the future of badminton.

This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies. We have known for some time that when species invade a new environment or ecological niche, a common result is the formation of a great diversity of new species. However, we haven't really understood how or whether the process of adaptation generally drives this pattern of species diversification.