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For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.
— Richard Matheson
'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
— Jason Moore
Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.
— Brett N. Steenbarger
People lie to adapt...
— Lionel Suggs
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
— Wendell Berry
but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.
— Mark Rippetoe
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
— Gary A. Klein
If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.
— Philip Zaleski
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
— Carl Rogers
Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.
— Margaret Atwood
My road thus far has not been an easy one, George, but it has been my own and I am proud of what I have accomplished.
— C.J. Hill
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
— Patrick DeWitt
I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
— John Dryden
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
— Ernst Mach
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
— Norman Jewison
It's more than coping. It's adaptation.
— Richard Kadrey
When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation
— John Piper
For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.
— G.M. Malliet
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
— John Simon
Do you want to change?"
"It's the only evidence of life. — Evelyn Waugh
"It's the only evidence of life. — Evelyn Waugh
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
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 the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
— Nicholas Stern
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
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