Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan. (Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm… — Lao-Tse Copy Share Image
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional… — John Grant Copy Share Image
'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
“On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different… — David Brock Copy Share Image
'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
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