Adaptation Quotes

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete. — Richard Matheson

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation. — Jonathan Haidt

'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

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern

Winning = adaptation and one step forward to take the prize — Jury Nel

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

Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power. — Lujan Matus

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

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. — Terry Southern

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