Adapt Quotes
410 quotes by 369 authors
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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our…
— Steven Pressfield
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For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd…
— Jean Pigozzi
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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of…
— Sonny Rollins
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The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt…
— Rebecca Solnit
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I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd…
— Todd Solondz
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I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.
— Isaac Marion
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its…
— Vernor Vinge
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Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if…
— T.D. Jakes
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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
— Christopher Hampton
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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link…
— Max Brooks
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My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I…
— Nicole Beharie
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As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels;…
— Vicente del Bosque
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I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt…
— Adelaide Clemens
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But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so…
— Bill Condon
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You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt…
— Eleanor Clift
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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse…
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that…
— Jeff Abbott
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I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the…
— Nina Garcia
Who Wrote These Adapt Quotes
369 authors contributed a total of 410 Adapt Quotes, led by these top contributors: