Adapting Quotes - Page 6

• I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

  Sean Durkin

  Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Different, Afraid Of Life, Unfamiliar

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.303, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  John Burns

  Past, Light, Reform

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• But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

  Christopher Alexander

  Order, Practice, Community

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.18, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

  Charlize Theron

  Lonely, Home, Tired

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks "Burning Plain" – Jen Yamato interviews". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

  Jason Mraz

  Technology, Our Generation, Soil

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• I always cheerfully say, "Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it'll do," but I do think it's maybe a little bit alarming. Everybody knows that one thing we really have to do is to be more wherever we are, more present, that's just kind of a commonplace. And the whole mobile phone thing is completely 100% the opposite - to never be where you are because you can always be somewhere else; and yet it's so fun and addictive.

  George Saunders

  Fun, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Play, Advertising

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• There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
  rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Giving, Hours

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Empowerment, Important

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• In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.

  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

  Behaviour, News, Coherence

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• To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

  David Hume

  Truth, Ignorance, Numbers

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

  Peter Drucker

  Hard Times, Elephants, Cockroaches

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Men, Effort

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.40, Souvenir Press

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• Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Views, Sea, Passing On

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• I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.

  Louise Leakey

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  "Louise Leakey: Where Did Human Beings Originate?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 24, 2014.

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• I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

  Gregory Heisler

  Technology, Games, Term

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Europe, Principles, Ruins

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• Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

  Joe Barton

  People, Way, Common

  "House Republicans bring strange theories and wacky witnesses to climate hearings" by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 20, 2009.

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Dying, Aging

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.28, Samuel Butler

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• Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

  Ed Stetzer

  Mean, Sound, Missionary

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• Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Rivers, Battle

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