Adaptation Quotes · Page 4

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

— Max McKeown

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

— Sylvie Guillem

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

“The best schedule is one that is adapting to change.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

— John Ruskin

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

— Joanne Froggatt

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the…

— William Whewell

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost…

— Killian Scott

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

— John Crowe Ransom

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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

— Barry Eisler

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows…

— Michael Gazzaniga

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my…

— Diablo Cody

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of…

— Trofim Lysenko

I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to…

— George R. R. Martin

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry…

— David Schwimmer

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where…

— Sara Pascoe

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while…

— Seth Lloyd

So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of…

— Joseph Fiennes

If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its…

— Brian Helgeland

“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what…

— Kate Egan

“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes…

— Joseph Heath

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how…

— Anne Michaels

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few…

— Mark Rippetoe

I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy…

— Nick Minchin

I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you…

— Marc E. Platt

Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,…

— Shepard Fairey

“Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.”

— michael bassey johnson

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

— Barry Gardiner

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

— George Vaillant

It's normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.

— Fred

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

— Lauren Fleshman

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

— Albert Einstein

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier