Adapting Quotes

Adapting Quote of the day

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

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

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

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.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

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

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.

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

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.

Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

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

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

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

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.

I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

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

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

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.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

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.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.