Adaptation famous quotes

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

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
-- Wallace Stegner

#West #Adaptation #Process

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
-- Walter Lang

#Race #Environment #Adaptation

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
-- Wendell Berry

#Novelty #Internet #Adaptation

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
-- Wesley Snipes

#Book #Challenges #Adaptation

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
-- William Whewell

#Mean #Adaptation #Given

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
-- Christopher McQuarrie

#Media #Adaptation #Crime

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
-- Gary A. Klein

#Evolution #Adaptation #Driven

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.
-- Joey Ansah

#Trying #Gamer #Adaptation

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
-- Raul Garcia

#Stories #Adaptation #Members

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
-- Andrew Davies

#Frustration #Classic #Adaptation

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

#Yesterday #Today #Adaptation