Famous Quotes & Sayings

My whole focus has been pretty sporadic, moving from position to position. I would like to be in one place, but right now that's not possible. So I got to be able to adapt to the situation.

Jaromir Jagr

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

Carlos Arroyo

I wish it never happened. Not so much for myself - I can handle it on my own - but it involves my family. They're trying to adapt to a new city. Now that I have a daughter, it's way different. That's the sad thing about the whole thing. You leave friends and people you're really close to behind.

I won't say anything about what happened to him (Stafford). Obviously he wasn't available for the rest of the game. We've got to adapt and overcome injuries this time of the year. They're part of the game. Whether or not he's available for Saturday night, we just adapt to that and overcome it.

I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

I think most of our young players have adapted to the college life. It takes a while to adjust to those things.

It depends on the routine. Sometimes we start off-ice and then adapt (the choreography). Sometimes we'll start on the ice and I'll stand in the bleachers and communicate what I want. Obviously, I'm more comfortable in the studio and they're more comfortable on the ice.

I think last weekend for a couple of them, it had been a bit disappointing in certain aspects of the game and they're looking for another match to adapt and make those changes. You work during the week and then you have fun competing.

Manufacturing productivity continues to outpace the gains in the rest of the economy, growing 4 percent a year as state manufacturers adapt their business models to utilize new technology and compete in a global economy.

It has been a very exciting first year really working with the women's program. I have been impressed with their competitiveness and their adaptation to the training. They are rounding into shape just as we enter the championship season and I am excited to watch the program make a huge jump like the men's team did my first couple years coaching.

I think that's something we'll definitely be exploring how can we adapt these networks to be used for bird flu prevention campaigns?

I think that I had to be a little more offensive-minded this season. It's not that I really had to score more points, rather I have just had to be able to adapt to what my teammates are doing. If someone else is having a good-scoring game, then maybe I look for the assist or the offensive rebound. My all-around game depends on what my teammates are doing game to game.

George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Kunal Kapoor

PBHG is a momentum shop. Here (at Merrill) he's got the chance to build his own team. It sounds good, but it's a bit of a challenge. You have to adapt to a new culture.

Kunal Kapoor

PBHG is a momentum shop, ... Here (at Merrill) he's got the chance to build his own team. It sounds good, but it's a bit of a challenge. You have to adapt to a new culture.

Maria Semple

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Today's telecom operators no longer need to build a brand new network for each new application. What they do need immediately is to develop an IP-based next-generation network, or IP NGN, which can adapt to present and future applications. Cisco CRS-1 is helping operators advance the development of IP NGN, so that all current and future applications can be integrated on one network.

James Morrow

We get 'em in when they're 3 days old. We put their pens around growing feed crops, so they can feed in a manner that will allow them to adapt to the wild.

We found an increasing number of people who like the property but would not use 13 weeks but wanted more than a couple weeks. We adapted to the consumers' demand.

Martin Amis

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

Peter Riegert

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.

We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution.

We will adapt our flights depending on how long the terminal is closed. Today it is not too problematic as flight arrivals and departures are being pushed onto other terminals,

We will revitalize our weapons design community to meet the challenge of being able to adapt an existing weapon within 18 months, and design, develop and begin production of a new design within three to four years of a decision to enter engineering development.

We have to make the most of it. We will adapt to the conditions and be prepared to play more direct than usual if necessary.

We have to look for an explanation on why this is happening. We'll study it over the winter. Right now we don't know why, ... If we did, I could adapt to solve the problem.

We're using a variety of materials, adapting the engineering to what we can find.

Using the Bayesian approach, it is natural to do continuous updating as information accrues. This characteristic makes it possible for us to build adaptive designs in clinical trials.

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

We do have to reduce our emissions but we also have to recognize climate change is happening, and we have to adapt as well.

Mark McKinnon

You adapt to the circumstances and the circumstances are different. I get zero sense of that. This is an administration and a president that are like the Marines -- they're used to taking the beach, they're used to getting shelled. But they dig in and they do their jobs.

We do take these cues about how we look and use them to guide how we behave. This shows how easily we are able to adapt and apply the rules to a new look.

We had a lot of young guys last year. Guys like Anthony were leaders, surrounded by a lot of young guys. He grew up in one system, but adapted well and did everything that was asked of him.