Adaptation Quotes

204 quotes by 179 authors

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival. — Cary Fowler
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere… — Karina Longworth
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic,… — Richard Pipes
If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a… — Mark Rippetoe
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. — David Benioff
Perfect preparation doesnâ€™t exist. Excellent adaptation does. — Lauren Fleshman
Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines. — Ronald A. Heifetz
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and… — Fred Singer
Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system… — Steven Pinker
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and… — Alfred de Vigny
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,… — George Perkins Marsh
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of… — Catherine Booth
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated… — Hubertus Strughold
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a… — David Henry Hwang
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself.… — Elmore Leonard
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… — Laurie Anderson
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? — Terry Tempest Williams
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea… — Alexander Agassiz

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