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• You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

  Billy Corgan

  Fun, Kind, Ifs

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Interview with Stereo IQ, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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• It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Jobs, Book, Firsts

  Interview with Josh Modell, film.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

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• Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

  Tom Cruise

  Black And White, Games, Chess Game

  "New Again: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

  Salvador Allende

  Reality, Use, Way

  Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

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• While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Church, Culture

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• Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Unique, Media, Native Language

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Moving, Goal, World

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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Average, Common Sense

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• The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Goal, Mastery

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Change, Views, Civilization

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• Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

  William O. Douglas

  Change, Ideas, Facts

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• I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.

  Charlie Munger

  Block, People, Quality

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• The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Scary, Worst

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cutting, Two, Challenges

  ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Mean, Style, Special

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• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Different Experiences, Sweden, Comedy

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• At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Media, Bridges

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Character, Fifty

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

  Philip K. Dick

  Attitude, Military, School

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  Jackie Chan

  Technology, Culture, Cinema

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Building, Should

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• So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Water, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.117, Shambhala Publications

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• In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

  Martha Stewart

  New York, Inspiration, Ideas

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