Quotes and Sayings About Adaptation

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Adaptation

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

#Animal #Details #Adaptation

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Details #Helping #Adaptation

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

#Mad #Consciousness #Adaptation

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

#Cinema #Landscape #Adaptation

You are what you love. Not what loves you.
-- Charlie Kaufman

#Love You #Adaptation

Writing is a journey into the unknown.
-- Charlie Kaufman

#Writing #Journey #Adaptation

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
-- David Benioff

#Cutting #Choices #Adaptation

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
-- David Hare

#Mystery #Adaptation #Fidelity

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

#Law #Adaptation #Natural

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Adaptation

One learns to itch where one can scratch.
-- Ernest Bramah

#Scratches #Adaptation

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

#Fields #Adaptation

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
-- Frank Darabont

#Ideas #Original Ideas #Adaptation

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
-- Gordon Getty

#Revolution #Adaptation

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
-- Hans Asperger

#Adaptation #Social #Intellect

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
-- Henry Miller

#Inspirational #Progress #Adaptation

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

#Principles #Mastery #Adaptation

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
-- Joanne Froggatt

#Stories #Pieces #Adaptation

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
-- John Crowe Ransom

#Miracle #Adaptation #Harmony

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
-- John Tooby

#Adaptation #Individual

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
-- Larry Constantine

#Moving #Important #Adaptation

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

#Book #Want #Adaptation

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
-- Max McKeown

#Successful #Adaptation

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

#Brain #Nervous #Adaptation

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
-- Nicholas Stern

#Challenges #Climate #Adaptation

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

#Cost #Climate #Adaptation

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
-- Terry Southern

#Adaptation #Collectors

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 #Adaptation

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
-- Timothy Leary

#Environment #Adaptation #Individual