Nick Nurse Quotes

You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you're playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

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.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going.

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.