Adapting Quotes

87 quotes by 82 authors

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. — Peter Drucker
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to… — Paul Thomas Anderson
People want whatâ€™s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because thereâ€™s always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies… — Ben Chestnut
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. — Alan Perlis
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two… — Tom Perrotta
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and… — Ben Elton
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I… — Anna Maria Chavez
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that… — Warren Christopher
I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things. — Sean Durkin
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. — Bret Easton Ellis
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel… — Howard Gordon
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms… — Josh Hutcherson
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. — Lasse Hallstrom
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things -… — Michel Hazanavicius
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary. — Kendrick Lamar
Iâ€™d say that Berkshire Hathawayâ€™s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. Weâ€™ve really made the money out… — Charlie Munger
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast… — Ernie Pyle
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ..… — Emma Thompson
I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing. — Anthony Pettis

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