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Adaptation Quotes

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

Authors on Adaptation Quotes: Stephen Jay Gould Charlie Kaufman Andrew Davies Nicholas Stern Alan Moore Charlie Hunnam Jaimal Yogis Terry Southern Ernst Mach Max McKeown Feist Wallace Stegner Pliny the Elder Joanne Froggatt Rob Lowe Alexander Hamilton Frank Darabont Raul Garcia Edmond Bordeaux Szekely Michael Gazzaniga Larry Constantine Walter Lang Camille Paglia Joey Ansah Alfred Russel Wallace Christopher McQuarrie Gordon Getty Thomas A. Edison Daniel Kahneman Hans Asperger Wendell Berry Ellen Goodman John Crowe Ransom
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
Charlie Kaufman

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

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Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
Hans Asperger

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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.
Alfred Russel Wallace

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

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

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One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Ernest Bramah

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

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

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

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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.
Thomas A. Edison

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Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
Ronald A. Heifetz

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

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

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

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

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Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
E. W. Howe

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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
Gordon Getty

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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
Charlie Kaufman

22.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Terry Southern

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

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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.
Stephen Sondheim

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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.
Camille Paglia

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

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Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman

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

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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.
Jaimal Yogis

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

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

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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.
Charlie Hunnam

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

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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.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

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

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

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

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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.
Alan Moore

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

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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.
William Whewell

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

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

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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.
Rob Lowe

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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.
Feist

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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
Andrew Davies

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

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

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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.
Andrew Davies

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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.
Raul Garcia

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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.
Bill McKibben