Top 355 Adaptation Quotes & Sayings

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

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

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

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

Shakti' is a very loose adaptation of 'Not Without My Daughter.'

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

I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.

Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real.

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.

Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

My job is called adaptation. It's always about adapting to new situations, but the core team is going to be the same.

It's normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.

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

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

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

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

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

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

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

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

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to do; adaptation might even be more difficult than writing an original screenplay. It's so much a matter of choices, making choices of what to leave in. It was an education.

The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. They give you a cushion underneath everything. The detail in the character, the detail in the tone.

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

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

You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.

Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

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