Adaptability : (360) " The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. " - P. J. O'Rourke " 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. " - Gareth Southgate " Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do. " - Marc Platt " Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. " - Ernst Mach " As blessed as I am, I clearly was not born with the twerking gene. It’s safe to say that I won’t be winning a twerking contest anytime soon. The robot on the other hand is a different story. " - Cynthia Bailey " We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let’s first fix the politics, then we’ll fix the rest. " - Abhijit Banerjee " When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn’t afford a telephone. " - Katharine Ross " I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of ‘Shrek’ was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform. " - Daniel Breaker " Part of being a comic is being flexible, being versatile. " - Iliza Shlesinger " I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough. " - George MacKay