Adaptation Quotes

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

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

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

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

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

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

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

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

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

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

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

At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

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

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did Shell Oil look at the melt and say, "Huh, maybe we should go into the solar-panel business instead?" No, Shell Oil looked at that and said, "Oh, well, now that it's melted it will be easier to drill for more oil up there." That's enough to make you doubt about the big brain being a good adaptation.

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.