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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 Andrew Davies Charlie Kaufman Nicholas Stern Alan Moore Daniel Kahneman Hans Asperger Wendell Berry Ellen Goodman John Crowe Ransom Stephen Sondheim Beth Moore Marjane Satrapi Thomas B. Macaulay David Hare Gary A. Klein Wesley Snipes Ashwin Sanghi Emma Stone John Tooby Ronald A. Heifetz Bill McKibben E. O. Wilson Henry Miller Tom Stoppard David Benioff William Whewell Ernest Bramah John Ruskin H. G. Wells Brian K. Vaughan E. W. Howe Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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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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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
Ernst Mach

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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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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
Charlie Kaufman

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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
Gordon Getty

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

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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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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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Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
Gary A. Klein

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I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
Brian K. Vaughan

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Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
Marjane Satrapi

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Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
Nicholas Stern

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Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
Wesley Snipes

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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
Stephen Jay Gould