Famous Quotes & Sayings

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Kevin McHale

Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.

Thomas Friedman

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Many corporations upgraded their PCs in preparation for Y2K, which boosted demand last year, ... If you figure on a three-year upgrade cycle, companies will not feel a need to upgrade in 2001. Corporate IT budgets are focused more on adapting to the Internet, which includes networking hardware, storage, and e-commerce software.

Security is a critical issue for all browsers. Microsoft incorporates security concerns into the design phase on all of its products, and with Internet Explorer 7, we paid particular attention to addressing not only known threats but also creating a foundation that is capable of adapting to protect users from new attacks in the future. Make no mistake, Internet Explorer 7 is a more secure browser from the foundation on up.

E. B. White

We're adapting a lot of material, but we're also doing a lot of very specific material to the various cultures we're targeting.

I feel like I'm adapting well. It's not something I expected or thought would happen, but it's something I'm willing to work at, something I want to do. I just have to work my butt off every day in practice and in games, keep playing at the top of my game.

Kellie is getting reps in the infield as well as the outfield during practice and is certainly learning a lot. She is constantly adapting to the Pac-10 level of play.

Nick Saban

Jason has had a great camp and has done a great job in every regard. He's probably one of the guys who has had a lot more to learn because he's never really played that position as a professional player. He's playing a combination of two positions right now, but he's done a tremendous job of adapting and making plays.

We think Dell has been too focused on perfecting its existing model instead of adapting it to a changing environment. What was working for them before is no longer working.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity

Guus Hiddink

That was not a desperate choice. He's been adapting to the pace of our game ever since we started the preseason campaign, and he has developed physically as well. Tonight we thought it time to hand him his full debut on the European stage.

Guus Hiddink

That was not a desperate choice, ... He's been adapting to the pace of our game ever since we started the preseason campaign, and he has developed physically as well. Tonight we thought it time to hand him his full debut on the European stage.

He's definitely a mature young man. He's done a nice job adapting to the offense.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefore have far more difficulty adapting themselves to a new marriage than young people.

Susanna Kearsley

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.

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.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

Joichi Ito

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Moshe Safdie

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

Dominic Cooper

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Peter Jackson

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

We're coming together after playing a tough schedule. Now we are adapting to other scorers.

Ben Johnson

We are adapting and modifying what we know about integrated electronic systems in the automotive industry, in order to advance the LAV for the military. We are introducing leading-edge technology into a rigorous military environment, a world of highly advanced weapons systems with the need for integration and global communications.

Yara Shahidi

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Willa Holland

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.

We don't know whether the use of vaccines is reducing the viral load and not causing birds to die, or if the birds may continue to shed virus without symptoms. We don't know if the virus is adapting itself into the poultry.

Gavin Hood

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

David S. Goyer

I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batman or Superman. Because all three of these guys are really iconic figures, and yes, Da Vinci was historical, but there's clearly been a lot of mythmaking about him, and a lot of things have been attributed to him that may or may not have happened.

Robert Kiyosaki

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

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

Bill Callahan

We put in a whole new system with much different terminology last year. Sometimes it was hard to communicate this system to the players, but they're adapting to it now.