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.

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

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.

....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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

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