Adaptation Quotes

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

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Progress, Daring

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You are what you love. Not what loves you.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Love You, What You Love, Adapting

  Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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• Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

  John Laroche

  Mean, Profound, World

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• The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Acceptance

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• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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• Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Yesterday, Today

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.204, Harvard Business Review Press

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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

  Daniel Kahneman

  Attention, Process, Seems

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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• When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Reality, Men, Resistance

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Adversity, Adaptability, Avoided

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1958.

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Foundation, Evolution

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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

  Ideas, Problem, Used

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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

  Miracle, Harmony, Inner Life

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• Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

  Giulio Douhet

  Change, Smile, War

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.54, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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

  People, Opinion, Stage

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• Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Practice, Theory Of Evolution, Agriculture

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Want, Film

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

  Terry Southern

  Collectors

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• Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Law, Connections, Branches

  ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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

  Ernst Mach

  Fields, Definite

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

  Franz Boas

  Opportunity, Looks, Path

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.69, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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