Top 255 Adapting Quotes & Sayings

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

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

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

The brain is constantly adapting.

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're all saying, 'This is The Girl on the Train experience.' All those stars or hooks needed to be in the film, but sometimes they needed to be a bit different. It's important when adapting such a popular book to hit all those points but also break out expectations without slaughtering the book. And that was, for me, the joy of adapting the book.

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

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

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

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

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

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

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

I'd love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that's simply not my job.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it.

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

When you stop adapting, you lose your edge and you can only go down.

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

I think it's important for me to keep adapting.

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 haven't had many problems adapting to the Premier League.

For Internacional I played in several different positions, so I have no problem adapting.

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

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."

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

For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books.

I'm not in the business of adapting things that are popular for the sake of just getting it on the screen. I think there has to be a vital reason.

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

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

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

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.

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

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

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

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

I'm on the right track to completely adapting to England.

I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don't think I would have had a problem adapting to England.

I'll adapt to any situation. I've been adapting to different situations my whole life.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

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

Firmino is a player who is really good at adapting to different positions. He is a No. 9, but he helps a lot in build-up play.

The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

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

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.