All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

You are cruising along and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology but not at the cost of losing your originality.

You get elected often if you're a woman on the strength of the women's vote then you get into office and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

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.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

We talk of our mastery of nature which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first to her ways.

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow evolve and create new music.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles both at the office as a mom and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life not just one single occasion.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Because of my medical and ideological training I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

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.

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.

For 'So Cold the River ' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter ' and who also wrote '8 Mile ' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

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.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise and what you don't how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.