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I took hostages and prisoners and expected them to adapt to my lifestyle. This relationship is a very 50-50. That's the mistake I made in my past relationships. I've done a lot of work on myself. I'm 16 years sober. I don't run away and I don't take drugs. I deal with the situation and I have a partner in my life who is great and helps me to do that.

It was definitely tough. I had to adapt to it. Every team I went up against, there was somebody bigger than me.

It is really a wonderful thing. And as more people adapt to it, it's going to be a bigger thing.

It's a great chance to walk around practice and see them do drills, not just explain them on the board. I think we can get more stuff out of this than just going to a clinic and listening to a coach talk. There's a lot of stuff we can adapt to what we need on the high school level.

It's a fascinating story to adapt and essentially it's a great opportunity to entertain and provoke conversation.

It might be a little different, but I'm sure I can adapt to it. It's a young group of players, and everyone seems to be having fun. It ought to be a great year and a successful year. I'm glad to be a part of it.

It's not something you can adapt to. We can't let it go on another 10 years like this. We've got to do something.

It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed. I find that much more constricting than walking with a limp. Actually walking with a limp is not that troubling. But to be one-handed, to drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in, and open a door and answer a telephone -- it all becomes incredibly time-consuming. Every scene, for me, is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick up this, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. But, you know, you adapt incredibly quickly. Human beings do. We're very quick.

For me, I haven't really experienced anything like it (flying in and out). I don't think it's going to be much, though. It shouldn't change anything with our players. We should adapt to the situation.

It makes it a little bit easier for us all to adapt together. I think it's going to be interesting to see how well we do. I think we'll all run pretty decent.

It's like playing in the NCAA Tournament. It forces your players to adapt to the time, the distance, the arena and the crowd. It's a great experience.

It's been a while since we've played a team like that. They are an in-your-face, aggressive team, and we needed to adapt to that. It took us a while to get going.

It's pretty clear in the district there's going to be changes. People are going to have to adapt to changes. It's hard all around. If you didn't have to do any of it, you wouldn't.

Then there are those (stores) caught in the middle, we are feeling the competition ... you have to adapt ... it's very competitive.

Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued to do fine productions, and I've found it even more challenging because we have to adapt productions to the recital stage, and yet we're doing full productions with sets, lights and everything.

'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.

The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.

The best way to adapt a game is not to look at the medium as being inferior to film.

That helps motivate us. We witnessed everything that happened firsthand and the way we had to adjust and adapt to the situation. The Katrina victims really helped inspire us.

It just seems like they had a formula that worked for them for a long time. They need to adapt their formula for the environment.

It's difficult, obviously, when you have a course that sits out here with different wind conditions than the other three. Being able to adapt and able to strategize based upon the wind, I think, is the key here.

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.

It's very frustrating. It definitely hurts us some. We just have to go play and just adapt to how the refs are calling it. Every game is different. We can't rely on the refs to make a call or not make one.

They couldn't adapt to our demands in catering to Hispanics and trying to be much more bilingual, ... The show will be in Spanish, so that makes a huge difference. I'm pretty sure the audience will define and determine very much the way we put the music to them.

The volume is there, but the chain stores have to adapt their practices.

They called our Command section and said they would land 24 hours later. We don't know the reason, ... We've seen a lot of these changes. We just adapt and overcome.

They want to take it to other places because they want other places to see what it is like, ... There is no inclination to adapt their sport to other countries. They just want other people to enjoy their sport.

They have to be very chameleon-like and have to adapt to their environment.

After three weeks off, we're anxious to get back to competing. The conditions down there will be quite firm, so we'll have to adapt to that. I feel like we gained some confidence from our last tournament and hopefully we can use the lessons we learned there to improve again this week.

Six years ago, when this now expired contract was signed, there were names like Bethlehem Steel and LTV and Inland and National and Acme, and these have all disappeared all disappeared for the very fact that they didn't recognize or couldn't adapt quickly enough to a changing world marketplace." ()

Six years ago, when this now- expired contract was signed, there were names like Bethlehem Steel and LTV and Inland and National and Acme, and these have all disappeared all disappeared for the very fact that they didn't recognize or couldn't adapt quickly enough to a changing world marketplace." ()

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.

The kids, the ones that are stars, good players, it doesn't matter. They adapt to it, but the kids that play National every day are going to be shocked when they go to the other courses.

The military constantly has to adapt to the society it recruits from.

I'm pretty versatile. I'm able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I'm with.

I'm just looking for a school I feel comfortable with. If I can adapt to the environment, I'll have a great year at that school - or a great two years.

I'm satisfied to have won and relieved it's over. It was not easy. I didn't play great but you need time to adapt to the surface.

If norms change, the military has to adapt to the changes or get left behind.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Industrial biotechnology offers the tools for the Western world to adapt to a more competitive marketplace and also keep some of those jobs in the local economy. It also offers new hope for the environment.

I'm been extremely pleased with the way he has progressed and the confidence level. When I asked him about the difference between major junior and the world (junior) championship, he said the speed of the game is way higher. It is. It's the best league in the world but players like that adapt quickly.

If our income, grade-point average, or social prestige increases, we feel an initial surge of pleasure. We then adapt to this new level of achievement, come to see it as normal, and require something even better to give us another surge of happiness.

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

In Volvo's most recent quarterly report we announced measures to adapt the level of Group costs, and since then signs of a weakening market have not declined,

In today's business environment, customers face a choice of productivity and collaboration software that can be both costly and somewhat limiting in its design and deployment characteristics. Built with more flexibility and efficient management in mind, IBM's Workplace family of software products provides a broad range of capabilities to enhance employee productivity and enable organizations to leverage their intellectual capital and adapt more quickly.

In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.

If you were to know us, my husband is extremely eccentric. He's never held a real job; he's an artist. He's had many years to be himself and never had to change or adapt to anyone. People find him very interesting. I think I'm eccentric too because I love the blend of classic with whimsy. That's what this farm is all about now.

In order to continue strengthening our connection to young people in today's digital age, it became clear that we needed to adapt our organizational structure in the same way we have always adapted our programming to meet our audiences' ever-changing tastes.

I think NBA players can adapt and certainly Coach K can adapt to NBA players.

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

By increasing in-region development and procurement, these companies can better adapt to US tastes and preferences while insulating themselves from currency fluctuations.

Climate change is the most urgent and serious challenge faced by the global community ? and we need leadership to adapt the global economy to deal with it, ... The Prime Minister?s move away from a target-based approach could have disastrous consequences.

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.

I don't know if we have ever taken out a flavor and brought it back to the market, but the landscape continues to change and we want to be as flexible as possible to adapt to the changing landscape.

Chances are, it's fine. But it's really dog-specific. There are some dogs who can handle it and who can adapt to what's perceived as mixed signals.... There are other dogs where you give them an inch and they're taking that mile.

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.

He's the only guy on the team that really commands a double-team. ... That says something about a freshman. Now we have to be able to adapt when that occurs to take advantage of the double-team.

Gallas still has one year left in his contract with his club. All I can say is we like French players because they are able to adapt better to our football than the rest of the Europeans.

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.

I don't think there's long-term value in saying here's another pipe to the same old TV. You may see Yahoo working with networks to adapt content or related content on TV to make it more appropriate to the Web.

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

I do not claim to have the answers. All I claim to have is an open mind that is willing to adapt to new information as it becomes available.

He can be a pitcher within a pitcher over the course of a game. He can adapt to the way batters adapt to him,

This is a good tournament, everybody could see how the others adapt to the new system. To me, it's OK, because I am an attacking player. And the new rule is good for attacks. But I don't think it is the future of badminton.

All I will say is it's better to win ugly than to lose pretty. It's the mark of a good team that we can adapt and do what we needed to do to win.

Air New Zealand will become a nimble and fast moving airline, able to rapidly adapt to change more quickly than its competitors. I am determined to implement the necessary measures to ensure this happens.

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.

The good thing is that we can move a lot of our kids around and still be all right. Our girls really adapt well to different positions and that's certainly a strength. We're going to play with that for a while and hopefully we'll find a lineup that will give us a good chance in the long run.

The children are not intimidated at all by the foreign languages. At first, there were a few raised eyebrows, but now it seems everyday to them. We all know that children are much quicker to adapt than adults.

The goal tonight was to adapt to their style of play. We wanted to stop them in transition and make them execute.

(The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I had read three different short stories of hers. And so what I wanted to do was to find a way to link all of her stories together. It ended up definitely being an adaptation, but also our own sort of overall story. We were just trying to imagine the life of that character.

The companies that can quickly adapt their business models, product and service offerings, and industry relationships to meet the industry's changing dynamics will be the ones to succeed in the long run. And with all these changes taking place, the companies that stay too close to their comfort zone will most likely get swamped by the innovators.

a million years to adapt to this heat. We water only new plants as they're getting established.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.