#adapting

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#fun #go #keep #kind #times

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #big #changing #creatively #environment

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#characters #christian #cinematic #committed #completely

In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference. ↗

— girl

#change #fantasy #reality #the-world #change

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. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities

Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive. ↗

— David W. Jones

#flexibility #flow #going-with-the-flow #nature

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel