Adapt Quotes by Robert Greene, Erik Spoelstra, Clint Eastwood, Ted DiBiase Sr., Joe Barton, Jean-Michel Jarre and many others.
If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.
This league does teach you that it’s inevitable that there’s constant change, and you always have to continue to embrace change, adapt with change.
There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.
The real art of what we do, at least back in the old-school days, was improv. If you were a great worker, you were able to adapt and that skill developed over time because of all the traveling and working in different areas. You learned how to read a crowd.
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
When I compose an album, I don’t think about how to adapt it on stage.
I am used to being a winger, but if a manager wants me to adapt to a new position, then I will have to – and I don’t mind.
My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.
The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.
You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.
It’s a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it’s hard for us to keep up with as a species.
I adapt my driving style more or less to anything, from go-kart to motorbike to wet, more downforce, less downforce, Pirelli, Bridgestone, Michelin, V8, V6, whatever.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
If you look after yourself and are willing to adapt – there is no reason why you can’t play at the top level until your late 30s.
At heart, human beings are what we may call ‘generalists,’ who have the ability to adapt their internal ‘software programs’ to different habitats or situations.
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn’t do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you’re doing. That’s the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.
When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.
I had to adapt to other worlds, and that helped to educate me that we are all basically the same.
You get the information, and it’s not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That’s what we do as actors. We’re just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes.
My characteristics are to control the game, stay in the middle and organise the team, but I can adapt as well.
It’s not easy to adapt to losing a lot.
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I’m set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don’t hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
My first, what, five, six years I was never given a microphone. Now we have this New Day thing where we talk pretty much every single week. It allows me to open up a whole different side, so I just think it’s really important to be able to adapt.
All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What’s important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.
Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
I learned early on as a baby-face you had adapt to their style. Ravishing Rick Rude had his own style and his own way with a little bit of some Ric Flair-isms. But I always learned to adapt myself.
Just because I’ve got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I’ve also become a lot stronger. It doesn’t mean I’m at any disadvantage, really.
I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.
We need to live with this virus. Though it cannot be back to normal pre-COVID-19 days, we need to adapt to the new situation, but resume economic activities.
I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.
As a player, you get to the stage where you realise that you are not 25 anymore – and can’t play the way you used to. The intelligent players adapt – and Steven Gerrard has the ability to do that. He is an excellent passer of the ball, possesses an intelligent football brain, and has great vision.
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It’s another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people.
I just can really adapt to any kind of environment.
I’m trying to adapt – they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
At the beginning, I didn’t want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: ‘Ok, I want the car like this’ – I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.
I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.
Ask most people, and they will say their name or profession, but you have to know who you are both physically and mentally. It’s really important in football because then you know your trigger points, how to adapt and improve.
Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.
It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
I’ve grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there’s a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I’m off to myself. And I’m totally committed to the game of football. That’s why I’ve had so much success.
It is difficult to adapt to Van Gaal. I had a couple of rows with him.
I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age.
It’s always difficult when you’re working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.
If technology and communications can adapt to people’s modern lifestyles, then why can’t our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
Only advanced bakers should endeavor to adapt non-vegan recipes to be vegan, or gluten-full recipes to be gluten-free. There are all sorts of tips and tricks when it comes to subbing vegan ingredients for eggs and dairy, but it’s tricky to say the least.
In the business world, those who are slow to act and adapt find themselves out of business in a hurry. In Washington, it can take 10 years to get even a good idea across the finish line.
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.
I am here to change anything. I’m here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
The fight against terrorism will not be over tomorrow or next month, or even next year. The fight will endure for years to come, and as the threat changes, so too must we adapt to these transformations.
The worst thing for me as a filmmaker is to watch on the iPhone but you can’t stop it. I think you have to adapt to it.
Whatever role I get told to play, I just have to adapt to it and play.
The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
The one that I’ve always wanted – and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it – is ‘Blood Meridian,’ which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.
Your body is an amazing machine that adapts to just about anything. If you’re constantly changing what your body needs to adapt to, it’s amazing what your body can do.
For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It’s like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You’d better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.
We make adjustments and changes before and sometimes also during the games in order adapt to the opposition. The manager will, for example, tell the striker to make different runs or position the central midfielders slightly differently in relation to each other.
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I’m not saying that you follow every trend slavishly, but what you see is that, if there is a sea-change in the way that things are being done, then you account for it.
I think it’s really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.
The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
If you love women, and you want to sing about love, don’t feel the need to say ‘he.’ Don’t feel the need to adapt to the society or the culture.
Some people feel divorce is an excuse to not compromise. Yes, in life you have to adapt and compromise. But the questions is – when does it stop? How much is too much, how less is too little? That’s a personal choice.
There’s more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I’m not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it’s a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It’s a good thing but a bad thing. It’s good because your body is quick to adapt, but it’s a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can’t recover as well.
People don’t like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.
I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
With the House of Marley, over the years we’ve been trying to establish ourselves not just as a brand but a lifestyle movement. So it’s been a challenge to get people to adapt to our new way of thinking. We’re all about sustainability, the natural life, the eco life.
You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
Times change and you have to adapt.
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn’t do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
I think part of being a professional cricket player is being able to adapt to conditions.
I am someone, as a cricketer, who feels it’s very important to be able to adapt quickly to the situation.
I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on ‘Smile,’ I learned to adapt to color on my end.
The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we’ve been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.
The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
We have only one Windows. We don’t have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it’s one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.
As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.
If you adapt your diet and exercise regime gradually you can keep it up long term. Often people begin with a big push and burn out quickly. Don’t suddenly go mad a week before your holiday. Start early and build up slowly: you’ll feel the benefits much more.
I mean, I think I pride myself on being a good hitter so if I have to, my job changes and I have to adapt to do that.
Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it’s different than they expect. They must adapt.
Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I’d like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I’m too drawn by my own material.
We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.
If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that’s been recorded for free. I’m not saying that’s right, but it’s a fact, and I’m surprised that more people don’t accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.
I had to play a certain style to get in the league, but now I want to be a player that stays in the league a long time, and you have to change your game and adapt.
My strength is my flexibility. As a batsman, I have to adapt to different roles and numbers and frankly, I have been around for a long time now to understand different situations.
People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to adapt to that when I arrived in Italy.
With a disaster like global warming, it’s too late to worry about when it’s looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.
I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don’t want to go back over things. I don’t want to adapt my own books for the screen. That’s something that’s important to me, the keeping it fresh.
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.
Superman is pretty much the way he was – you know – what he’s always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he’s pretty malleable.
I think that’s a big challenge in the NBA: How quickly can you adapt? Because things always change in the league – whether it’s trade, free agency, an injury, you have to adapt quickly.
I’ve learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I’ve also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.
I’ve slowly made my body adapt and understand what’s going to happen.
You have to adapt to each level and it improves you when you’re in better teams. That’s what’s happened to me over the years. Every team I’ve played in has just got better and better. It’s become a lot easier.
What makes me unique is my ability to adapt to different situations and switch onto smaller guards and stay out there. Another component to being out there on the floor – and this is something that I learned as my college career went on – was staying on the floor, literally, comes down to not picking up fouls.
You can’t keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.
Content is getting its due respect. Our audience wants to see characters on screen and want to see actors play new roles, adapt different body language.
One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.
As an actor, there are a lot of personas and personalities that you carry. Whatever you wear, you adapt to it, and people feel that’s your style. But that’s not necessarily an actor’s style. There are some things that are very ‘you,’ and some are only to suit your persona.
People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.
Learning disabilities do not go away, but you learn how to adapt. You may have to work a little bit harder; it may take a long time. You just may do it differently – but you can do it.
No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
It’s really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.
The more you change and stress the body the quicker it’s going to adapt and change.
Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day – more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow?
You need to be ready, to adapt quickly and learn fast.
The Bundesliga is different from La Liga, it’s different from Serie A, it’s different from the Premier League, so you have to adapt to the circumstances.
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
I’m a player coming into Manchester United, I’ve got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.
It’s hard sometimes, especially with a book like ‘Scorch Trials,’ to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.
I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.
It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who read the classic novel.
I watch other wrestlers. I watch movies with Jackie Chan and Jet Li and Tony Jaa. Then there’s breakdancing and Capoeira – just anything I see that looks awesome that I think I could adapt in the ring. Just your typical Kung Fu, breakdancing, Capoeira moves.
When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.
You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.
Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can’t fight that, I have to adapt and change.
Things you don’t expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can’t let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.
It’s better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.
It’s funny how quickly human beings adapt.
As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.
You can put me in front of any kit, and it is a fun thing to have to adapt. It inspires me to try different things. I like that.
I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it’s up to you to adapt to English football because you can’t change it. I think I’ve achieved something in the way I adapted.
I encourage all humans to do something out of your comfort zone that forces you to adapt. You’ll be pleasantly surprised of your capabilities.
You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it’s all kind of devices. So you’ve got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas… I’ve been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.
There will be ups and downs. Other teams will adapt to us, but everything will be OK in the end. We know we have to learn everything perfectly for this to work.
Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.
If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
You can’t stay who you are… Things change and you have to be able to adapt.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
I’m glad nobody has asked me to adapt ‘Wuthering Heights’ because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.
The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.
It’s so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.
A lot of guys would say that I was like a ‘damn chameleon’. It doesn’t matter who you are in the ring with, you can adjust and adapt.
Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children’s education.
For my striking, I’ve learned to adapt it right off the bat for MMA. Even my jiu-jitsu, I adapt it very much for MMA.
As an international player, the players have to adapt to the condition no matter what the situation is.
I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don’t think I would have had a problem adapting to England.
I do not agree that the coach has to adapt to the players. There was a time when I thought it, but that was because I did not understand football.
No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.
For many, hair is just hair. It’s something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what’s on my head. It’s a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
I’ve come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it’s not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.
It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.
As the threat to harm the United States and U.S. interests evolves, we must adapt and confront these challenges, relying heavily on the strength of our federal, state, local, and international partnerships.
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It’s a dialogue.
On ‘Mr. Robot,’ because I run the writers’ room and know every decision behind every line of dialogue, I’m able to be nimble and adapt with the scripts and the moments. I never have to question what I’m doing as I’m directing the actors or going through the scenes.
I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.
You’ve got to be able to adapt to your environment.
Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.
There are always new challenges in football. You just need to adapt; otherwise, you won’t fit in. And if you don’t fit in, then you will have to go somewhere else.
It takes time to adapt to become an Arsenal player.
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
It’s a new era with regard to social media. It’s just something that we have to adapt to and accept.
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we’ve not only survived, we’ve used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
In places where marriage’s core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
In the industry, people talk about how getting their first project was a struggle but for me, the real struggle in Mumbai was to adapt to the lifestyle, culture and work ethics.
I do think one of my strengths is the ability to adapt to whatever the situation is.
You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don’t get a result, you are under pressure.
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It’s not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.
You cannot leave the pressure and responsibility on young people in general. Young people must enter a safe and protected environment to be able to pass and fail so, little by little, they can adapt.
That’s life in the league for you, though. I mean – that’s life for you, period. Things don’t always happen in a straight line. There’s usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it’s on you to adapt.
Real Madrid is bigger than egos. The club is huge and the culture of the club was so big that we were able to sign huge players. It was then up to the players to adapt to the culture and not the other way around.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
It’s never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it’s as if you’re chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
I would not be worried about the physical aspect of the Premier League. I have scored goals in Argentina, Portugal, and now Spain. I am confident I can adapt my game to any league.
To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there will be no nearby friendly merchants or supportive governments to replace that broken tool.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
I change the workout every month, so you never adapt and never plateau.
The simple rule I will follow to sustain in the industry would be to adapt to these ongoing changes and be a versatile artiste.
You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It’s what I do. It’s what wins for me.
You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.
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.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
I think it’s always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.
No matter where I bat I try to adapt to the situation.
At my age – 31, nearly 32 – the No. 9 role is perfect for me. But it is important to adapt to whatever the team and the coach need.
‘The Blacklist’ was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.
Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.
When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.
When I was younger and in primary school, I’d do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle.
I got used to being pushed down, getting my eye split open and guys talking trash.You have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. That’s what I did.
I was the first judge in the ‘Indian Idol’ format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian ‘X Factor,’ the press would ask, ‘Who is Simon Cowell?’ And I said ‘Why don’t you ask Simon Cowell, ‘Who is Sonu Nigam?’
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
If players cannot see what’s going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.
Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless – then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
There are teams in England who play the football I like, keeping the ball on the ground, playing a quick game with one-twos, pressing their opponents high up the pitch. If one of these clubs were interested in me, I’d adapt to them well, and they could adapt to my way of playing, which isn’t so common.
What’s needed to be appreciated about Young Zwann is that he is quite receptive to changes, always willing to learn and adapt to new styles. I am sure that given his dedication, he will manage to carve his own space in the music industry.
Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He’s obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.
Neymar will leave Barca fans speechless. He could become an even better player than he was during the Confederations Cup with Brazil. He’ll easily adapt to the style of the team and will be very happy there.
I feel like I can really adapt to any type of fashion sense that I want to.
But in practice master plans fail – because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
I don’t think I’m the right man to adapt a book.
Values are the foundation of a company. Culture is the manifestation of values – the day to day actions and behavior. Adapt tactical cultural behavior that helps you execute on your values.
We have to adapt in football.
I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.
I’ve always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of baby spinach to a fruit smoothie and may hardly even taste it. Next, try two. Slowly, your taste buds can adapt to more greens.
Different coaches have different schemes, so for me, it’s about learning and being able to adjust and adapt to these coaches. It fills your toolbox.
I don’t think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it’s going to go there one way or the other.
As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
Web series is a new format, where everything, from the writing to storytelling is different. As an actor you have to approach it differently because you have a character which can go on for a long time. It is my duty to be on my toes, understand the new technology and adapt.
As a singer, I float around. I’m kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what’s going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
My game takes time to adapt to grass; grass is a little bit different.
Cyborg doesn’t need to eat or sleep, and whenever he encounters an issue that he’s not initially equipped to handle, his technology can transmogrify and immediately adapt to that situation.
I was 16 and went straight into the reserves. I had to adapt to the language, adapt to a new country, adapt to a style of play, all with new team-mates. All those kind of things were in my head and it was very hard.
It’s nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we’re in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.
In Brazil, we play quite open, but I’m doing my best to adapt as quickly as I can.
The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We’ve got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.
I don’t think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it’s just that it’s easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that’s where they want to go.
If you come to Formula One you have already proved that you are able to adapt and learn and be fast.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
There is no question that Korean footballers have the ability to play in Europe. The real challenge is whether they will be able to adapt to western culture.
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands… Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
You have to have coaches willing to adapt.
We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.
It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It’s the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.
For me, the most important thing is that I adapt quickly to different conditions and be consistent.
Hope E. L .James doesn’t think I’m being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer’s dream.
Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that’s all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it’s wrong. But people act like it’s some crazy thing they never heard of. They don’t know.
We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture is expensive. You are like a doctor.
Good players always adapt well.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work – the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
If they don’t execute well enough then there’s nothing much a coach can do. But if they do execute those plans correctly and they don’t work, then you need to be able to adapt and come up with something different.
When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.
If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
I’m not trying to keep up or adapt. I’m allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
An employee who’s one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
The failings in Afghanistan don’t fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.
Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.
Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American writer Dan Harmon. It’s remarkably simple: a character wants something; they enter a new world and adapt to it; they get what they want, re-enter the old world and change.
When you’re picking up and moving, it does create… well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car – he drew it! – is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we’d have the resistance problem we face today. We didn’t give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.
My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt to the Soviet system of doublethink.
When you go to a club you have to adapt to the club, the country, food, but not Neymar.
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.
Theoretically, an open-plan office is a great format for a changeable work environment, a place where employees have a say over how they work and a place that can adapt to their needs and to the needs of the business.
The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.
The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you’re working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.
A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation’s values and never the other way around.
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
The difference in the Premier League is that it’s very competitive physically, so I’ll try to improve in that aspect as well and adapt as soon as possible to the style of play.
On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.
A true champion can adapt to anything.
When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.
Entrepreneurs – both women and men – need equal and fair access to finance – to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.
Give up the thought that you have control. You don’t. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.
The best leaders adapt and are flexible with their situations. I try to be the same.
At heart, I’m a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That’s just me.
We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt to such a rapidly changing world.
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
I was one of the youngest world champions in boxing. It is not that I was not prepared for it. I was just so young and it happened so quickly. I had to adapt to it. Live up to the hype. It was hard.
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
That’s one of the cool things I love about television, is it’s able to evolve and able to adapt and the actors and the performers are actually a more integral part of the process. So they’re informing not just the characters, but the story.
I got a sneak peek into the functioning of the film industries of the south through Telugu cinema. This industry has helped me understand how to adapt to various styles of filmmaking. It’s been liberating.
A change is always difficult for a player and his family. You are starting from zero and you have to adapt to a new league.
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.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.
We have to adapt and overcome, that’s all we can do.
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I’ve learned to adapt.
I like to adapt to each city. I like to come up with a concept for each space I do. The vibe in L.A. is a little sexier than New York, so the colors are a little different.
I think a fighter should be ready and able to adapt to anything that is in front of him in the ring.
It’s difficult to adapt to Barcelona.
The climate crisis is upon us, and its effects will only become more apparent in the years to come. We need to both adapt to this reality and continue to take bold action to fight it.
Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.
Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we’re actually part of? We’re causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, ‘I wonder where we’re headed.’
I can adapt to any situation.
I’ve learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal.
Life in England was a bit difficult. It is not easy for a South American. Some people get on fine, and for others, it is harder to adapt.
I’m pretty versatile. I’m able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I’m with.
A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book ‘Stardust’ bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.
Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.
It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project; you don’t get the criticisms you would get with other projects.
Toy time is holding steady, but kids are spending more time on digital, and toys need to adapt.
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the ‘neuroplasticity’ allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
If you’re in big-time situations all the time – like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations – you adapt.
There’s a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
It’s very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.
I read ‘The Last Wish’ and really loved it. But I never would have called myself a fantasy writer before this. I’ve done some comic book shows, I’ve done a lot of drama. So when I read the book I loved it but never thought I should adapt it personally.
Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.
I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.
I can adapt to change easily, but I’m not a fan of it.
Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.
You can’t underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don’t realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls – so we always have to adapt.
I think you learn from every experience, and you have to continue to adapt.
When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.
I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
I’m not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John’s. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.
I’m too old to adapt to somebody else’s ways.
It’s important to go into the grocery store with a plan and a list. But it’s a skeleton – you need to know how to deviate from it and adapt it to what ingredients are available and fresh.
The transition from football to futsal is very difficult, as this is a shorter and faster version. We have no time to think, but I’m trying to adapt the best I can.
Some things are difficult to adapt to.
The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It’s a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.
Bowlers have to adapt all the time.
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don’t know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
I am constantly asked, ‘What’s the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?’ The only answer I can give is the space – you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.
The things I have sold to film, I’ve sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven’t sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We’ve been able to adapt nicely. It’s given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.
I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it’s a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers – whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there’s nothing wrong with that.
Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don’t let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.
You need to adapt your game for what the team needs.
We’re the only creature God ever created that doesn’t want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that’s constant is nature is constantly changing.
People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn’t have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn’t need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.
It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students ‘learn how to learn’ and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.
I have a temperament that doesn’t adapt well to politics. It’s because I speak my mind so much.
I’m easy to adapt to. I’m not going to come in and say I need this shot, I need the ball here or there. Doesn’t matter.
I’ve learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.
We live in a world where we just have to adapt. You can’t sit around and cry. You’ve got to get a move on, that’s the way the world is.
As Governor, I’ve worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way – bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
Whether you’re in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.
I think the consistency in my performances, my ability to adapt to different coaches, systems or competitions work in my favour.
If you look at the best players around the world, they sum up what people are trying to do and adapt to it and are willing to change and have the confidence to change what they are doing to get the right outcome.
Whatever happens, I’m going to adapt to it. I always been like that all my life.
Most of the games are decided by a small margin. That shows the intensity and the competitiveness of the English league. Everyone knows here the competition is ferocious. It’s a bit different than the Portuguese league. But I’m going to try to adapt to this league as quick as possible.
I don’t think my body’s gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.
At KPMG, we believe that companies with inclusive and diverse cultures are better positioned to adapt, grow, and thrive in a changing business environment.
Basketball players can adapt to any situation.
Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment’s requirements – from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look.
To achieve success in this game you need specific talents and attributes. But we also have to adapt to the fact that we work in the public eye, with all its pros and cons.
I’ve always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don’t change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.
You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I’d have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, ‘Ohhh, it’s magic.’ Nothing’s magic. A thing doesn’t jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren’t good.
China will continue to adopt multiple measures to advance the reform and opening up of its financial sector so that its financial market can better adapt to financial modernization and globalization.
Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet – the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn’t anything that I had to do.
Don’t tie yourself down to one workout, as your muscles quickly adapt to a certain style of training, so you’ll see less results over time. The same can be said about cardio and your diet.
I’ll adapt to any situation. I’ve been adapting to different situations my whole life.
I realise I have to adapt my game a bit at international level; that the combativeness in the Premier League is a little bit different at international level.
Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
Ancelotti immediately understood me and put me in the right situation to adapt quickly. I was 18 and, at that age, it is difficult. He helped me a lot off the field, too. He advised me on how to behave. You can say he was a father to me in the footballing world.
‘Adapt and overcome’ is my new motto.
You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.
Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.
We’re always thinking of different things to be on the cutting edge of what’s entertaining or what’s hot on Twitter or social media or even society in general. I’ve had little goals here and there. But that’s the main goal. Always changing, always be prepared to adapt.
I’m listening to Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino. I’m just trying to just get as many different inspirations as I can. I love artists that can adapt and have different styles.
When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.
To me, the songs that I’m most thankful to have been a part of creating are the songs that are able to adapt and change over the years and that mean different things to you at different periods of time in your life.
What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker’s Nick Denton in 2005.
Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
Abusive relationships go on and on. You’re in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.
Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.
The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.
At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
When doing a remake, you’re on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.
Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don’t have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I’ve tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody’s work. I like to adapt books.
I was an executive producer. I’ve done a lot of jobs and I think each one helps you get closer to what you want as a director. It also helps you – when you work with different filmmakers – to absorb, to adapt, to know what to watch out for, to know pitfalls.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it’s always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in – for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great – throughout the day, we’ll also make judgment calls and adapt to what’s available.
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.
Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You’re going to make decisions, you’re going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
I’m a strong fighter, I’m a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.
I have never come across a technology that doesn’t change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.
I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.
You gotta be able to adapt.
Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.
If I can adapt to different tactics I think I will be a better player.
Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.
Wherever you’re from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.
I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around – we’ll adapt to that. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.
You just have to adapt to what is needed at that moment, whereas as coaches are going crazy, because they’re used to having and following a schedule. Everything’s laid out in front of them on when they’re going to practice and when they’re going to take a plane to this city.
With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn’t have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
I’ve learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.
You have to have the ability to adapt. That’s probably the single most important quality you need to have as a WWE Superstar.
That image is now associated with the Portuguese coaches: the ability to adapt, to arrive and win, to assemble good teams and good structures is undoubtedly one of our brands and I think that’s the main fact for which we are most respected around the world.
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we’re able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you’re in, they become normal.
My experience on clay is less than possibly on hard and grass courts, but in terms of my game style and my physical abilities, I think there’s no reason why I can’t adapt well to the surface and really try to maximize what I can do well on clay.
Living in a jungle is not something easy; it’s not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn’t want to adapt.
To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run things like wikis in open formats in order to a: start off with better ideas and then b: adapt to errors much faster than is possible with normal Whitehall systems.
I love Elektra. I really have a special place in my heart for her. It was very enjoyable for me to discover her and to adapt her for this project and bring myself to this character. So I have a special spot for her.
Our farmers and ranchers constantly evolve and adapt to the conditions surrounding them, and if provided better and faster connectivity, the development of new technologies on the farm will rival any other sector.
You know I’ve never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it’s all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.
You never know for sure whether a player will adapt to a new country until he gets there.
Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me. Adapting was a challenge. I was staying in a boarding school and in a different culture that I wasn’t used to. It was very hard to adapt, build confidence and change my attitude.
I’m French – it’s less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there – but I’m still a foreigner.
By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.
Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
Irrespective of who’s up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.
There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we’re so happy in America I actually can’t see us ever leaving… People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.
Capitalism has proved its ability to adapt: at a time when so many younger people quite legitimately feel that the economic system doesn’t work for them, big business appealing to their sense of idealism is a savvy move.
There’s no substitute for taking a clear-eyed look at the threats we’ll face and asking how our force will adapt to meet those threats.
I wouldn’t say I’m a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I’ll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
If a translation doesn’t have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.
Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.
When you change teams, cities or countries it’s obvious there’s a period of adaption, but some players can adapt quicker than others.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they’re going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren’t looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph.
I use the transition of the airport, the flying from one place to another to really let go of the -isms, and the ideas that I have as an individual and kind of adapt and begin to morph.
I grew up going to bakeries in Tel Aviv; that’s where we got our birthday cakes, they were always European baking and butter creams. We have such good baking in Israel, and we have the Diaspora of Jews from all over, and we learned early on to adapt and absorb flavors from all over.
I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.
Being the Barca coach is different to being the coach at another club because you have to adapt to the philosophy of the club. At other clubs, maybe you have the freedom to adapt the team to your way of thinking. Here, that’s not the case.
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.
Every situation I’ve been in in my career, you just sort of adapt, and figure out where you can be effective.
The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after ‘The Crimson Petal’s publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.
In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don’t, you get found out.
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
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.
Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future – with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.
I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.
It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.
The thing I enjoy is that I have come to league as a union player, and I have to adapt to different situations I am facing.
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
I can adapt my game to anyone, whether it’s Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, or Batista.
And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I’m just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.
Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they’re a lot bigger than us, so people think we’re copying them.
You’ve got to adapt – or get out.
However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody’s work, it’s like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself.
It’s always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium.
Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.
They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.
If Arsene Wenger came down to League Two he would have to adapt, he couldn’t work in the same way he works at Arsenal.
I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing ‘Rocky IV.’ I am doing the black ‘Rocky.’
There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.
Foreign managers, sometimes it’ll take them time to adapt or for the players to adapt to them. It’s something that is just one of those things in football.
I was on this weird, wild goose chase where I thought I might try to adapt a Willa Cather book. And if you don’t know Willa Cather, she was an author in the early 1900s. And for a while, she wrote these books about New York high society.
My theory in the ’90s was that I didn’t want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce it to a 90-minute movie. The Emma Thompson-Ang Lee ‘Sense and Sensibility’ was beautiful, but other ones, I didn’t think justice was being done. It’s not a slam dunk to adapt these books.
Over time, the business itself has evolved and changed almost seemingly every year. I’ve been able to adjust and change my style and adapt to whoever I’m in the ring with.
I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven’t. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I’ve tried to emulate throughout my career.
Guardiola has come to City with a very unique style. And he wants to continue that philosophy. We had to work to adapt to his style.
As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
I don’t know how long ‘The Vlog Squad’ will last, but I think for YouTube, as long as you adapt it can last a while.
When you’re in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, it is my responsibility to help our country adapt to and overcome the threats that COVID-19 presents to air travel.
When you go to a new country, you don’t have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.
I’ve adapted my own work a couple of times, and I’ve also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.
I’m taught to adapt and exploit every situation in the ring.
There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.
We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don’t have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
I am always trying to learn and adapt.
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, ‘Oh well, it’s cold there, lethally cold.’ But the reality is you adapt to weather… Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
I wondered whether being a Political Science student and a teacher are sufficient qualifications to become a politician and quickly adapt to the complex world of politics.
I don’t have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I’m training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.
