
She crossed her arms across her chest, and for a moment, Richard thought she looked a lot like her brother, only more like an adorable, angry kitten. —
KaraLynne Mackrory

Religious belief itself is an
adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. —
E. O. Wilson

Every
adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. —
David Benioff

Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version?
A: No official release of myself will ever follow!
Q: Then, you are not!
A: I —
Rossana Condoleo

He can't ground her if he's already killed her," I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. "Well, he can, but it wouldn't have the same impact. —
Claire LaZebnik

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! —
Fyodor Dostoevsky

She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer." - Mr Sherlock Darcy —
Debbie Cowens

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould —
Jonathan Haidt

Adapt yourself to the needs of the people —
Sunday Adelaja

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience. —
Jason Jennings

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of
adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. —
Richard Dawkins

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of
adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. —
Nick Cave

AA 241:87 - I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important
adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. —
Ernest Cline

It is a miracle of harmony, of the
adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. —
John Crowe Ransom

By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help. —
M.F. Moonzajer

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an
adaptation. —
Lev Grossman

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an
adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover. —
David Benioff

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage
adaptation of Dirk Gently) . —
Arvind Ethan David

Culture is always on the move. —
Colin Woodard

Survivors make it because they learn to adapt.
Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength. —
Lisa Gardner

If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no
adaptation to. —
Steven Magee

A ... reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not. —
Steven Pinker

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from
adaptation to attachment. —
Lionel Shriver

Take in every detail of your environment and adapt. —
Carlos Wallace

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an
adaptation to life. —
George Meyer

Having a plan of action, even really mundane action, was a huge benefit in terms of
adaptation to a radically new environment. —
Chris Hadfield

You are what you love, not what loves you. —
Charlie Kaufman

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today. —
Henry David Thoreau

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the
adaptation of their books for the screen. —
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There's actually a term for this - "hedonic
adaptation." When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations, —
Dan Harris

We survived life by
adaptation to the changing situation. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction,
adaptation. —
Anthony Marra

In general, my own experience of writing an
adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book. —
Susan Minot

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe. —
Steven Pinker

After I sold my screenplay
adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement. —
Barry Eisler

Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better. —
Sachin Kumar Puli

I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet —
Debbie Cowens

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and
adaptation. —
Miles Anthony Smith

I see only
adaptations - not revolutions. —
Gordon Getty

The great mystery of
adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. —
David Hare

Complete
adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. —
John Dewey
Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world. —
John Laroche
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades —
Nicholas Stern

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. —
Richard Wright

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day ... I admit I encourage him in that also. —
Jane Austen

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective
adaptation to an environment. —
James G. March
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. —
Daniel Kahneman

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective
adaptation to stress that allows us to live. —
George Vaillant

The issue of doing an
adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. —
Dana Brunetti

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. —
Wayne Gerard Trotman

The human has no genetic
adaptation to modern industrialized products and needs to be careful with prolonged exposure to these for good health. —
Steven Magee

Natural selection is a theory of local
adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement —
Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution taught us that
adaptation is the key to survival. —
Gemma Malley

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental
adaptation. —
Beth Moore

We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct
adaptations. —
Stephen Jay Gould

In fast moving markets,
adaptation is significantly more important than optimization. —
Larry Constantine

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home. —
Harold Bloom

Social
adaptation has to proceed via the intellect. —
Hans Asperger

The excellence of every government is its
adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. —
Thomas Jefferson

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

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of
adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. —
Michael Gazzaniga

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest. —
Michael Bassey Johnson

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and
adaptation. —
Mary Augusta Ward

Adopt your own view and adapt with others' views —
Mohammed Sekouty

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing
adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. —
Wallace Stegner

I adore doing classic
adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations. —
Andrew Davies

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things —
Sunday Adelaja

Finesse is the best
adaptation of means to circumstances. —
Thomas B. Macaulay

Individual organisms are best thought of as
adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. —
John Tooby

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at '
Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. —
Nicolas Cage
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. —
Marjane Satrapi

I did an
adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book. —
Graham Moore