Top 1200 Adapting To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

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

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.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

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

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

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

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.

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

Two years gives you enough time to grow and to change, and to, you know, change your priorities. Change where you live, change your hair, change what you believe in, change who you hang out with, what’s influencing you, what’s inspiring you. And in the process of all of those changes in the last two years, my music changed.

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.

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.

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.

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.

It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.

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.

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

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.

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

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

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

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

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

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

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

It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

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

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.

We have been making changes continuously. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the minute it is made. Things change; they are dynamic as you progress. The requirements change. Demands change. So you change with that.

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.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

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."

If some things aren't going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!

The writers did a great job of adapting the characters from the 'Frozen' story and implementing them into the 'Once Upon a Time' world.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

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.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

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

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

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

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.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

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!

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

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

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.

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

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

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

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

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

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.