Quotes and Sayings About Adaptation
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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 -
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
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 -
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 -
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
-- David Benioff -
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
-- David Hare -
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 -
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
-- Ernst Mach -
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
-- Frank Darabont -
Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
-- Hans Asperger -
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
-- Henry Miller -
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 -
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
-- Joanne Froggatt -
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
-- John Tooby -
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
-- Larry Constantine -
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
-- Marjane Satrapi -
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
-- Max McKeown -
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 -
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
-- Nicholas Stern -
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
-- Nicholas Stern -
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
-- Terry Southern -
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 -
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
-- Timothy Leary