Quotes about Adapt

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily. Votes: 4

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! Votes: 3

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. Votes: 3

Adapt to every circumstance. Votes: 3

Adapt and overcome' is my new motto. Votes: 3

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto. Votes: 3

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct. Votes: 3

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. Votes: 3

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques. Votes: 3

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment. Votes: 3

Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. Votes: 3

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. Votes: 3

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way. Votes: 3

Life is a fight. Don't let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you. Votes: 3

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. Votes: 3

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. Votes: 3

A candle can't cease the darkness, the fear that it may extinguish is itself dark. Adapt to darkness and there will be no darkness within. Votes: 3

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Votes: 3

A cockroach can't defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn't. Votes: 3

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends. Votes: 3

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are. Votes: 2

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways. Votes: 2

Times change and you have to adapt. Votes: 1

A true champion can adapt to anything. Votes: 1

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Votes: 1

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you. Votes: 1

I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini. Votes: 1

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. Votes: 1

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another. Votes: 1

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families. Votes: 1

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. Votes: 1

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. Votes: 1

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. Votes: 1

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. Votes: 1

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that. Votes: 1

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it. Votes: 1

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. Votes: 1

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports. Votes: 1

Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. Votes: 1

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. Votes: 1

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental. Votes: 1

That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. Votes: 1

People lie to adapt... Votes: 0

You must improvise, adapt, and overcome. Votes: 0

You adapt to who you're photographing. Votes: 0

The ability to adapt is everything! Votes: 0

Swipe from the best, then adapt. Votes: 0

You adapt, evolve, compete or die. Votes: 0

I believe I can adapt to anything, Votes: 0

There are two options: adapt or die. Votes: 0

Some things are difficult to adapt to. Votes: 0

I believe I can adapt to anything. Votes: 0

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. Votes: 0

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. Votes: 0

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Votes: 0

Dressing is like modelling - you can constantly adapt. Votes: 0

But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt. Votes: 0

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. Votes: 0

I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well. Votes: 0

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways. Votes: 0

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt Votes: 0

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing. Votes: 0

Marketers need to adapt a "members first" approach to content. Votes: 0

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges Votes: 0

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. Votes: 0

Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt. Votes: 0

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward. Votes: 0

I just can really adapt to any kind of environment. Votes: 0

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work. Votes: 0

The key to success is often the ability to adapt Votes: 0

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment. Votes: 0

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment. Votes: 0

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning. Votes: 0

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. Votes: 0

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. Votes: 0

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book. Votes: 0

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do. Votes: 0

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. Votes: 0

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor. Votes: 0

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. Votes: 0

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs. Votes: 0

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. Votes: 0

Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see. Votes: 0

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt. Votes: 0

It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate. Votes: 0

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do. Votes: 0

Bavaria is a dynamic, cosmopolitan state. Those who don't adapt fall behind. Votes: 0

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it. Votes: 0

You can always alter and adapt your plan, provided you have one. Votes: 0

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. Votes: 0

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it. Votes: 0

I move in many ways. I can adapt and overcome to any situation. Votes: 0

The world is not something to understand. Instead, you just adapt to it. Votes: 0

It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it. Votes: 0

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good. Votes: 0

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. Votes: 0

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers. Votes: 0

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. Votes: 0

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. Votes: 0

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation. Votes: 0

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. Votes: 0

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series. Votes: 0

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things. Votes: 0

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. Votes: 0

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. Votes: 0

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes. Votes: 0

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied? Votes: 0

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances Votes: 0

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. Votes: 0

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink. Votes: 0

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. Votes: 0

I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue. Votes: 0

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come Votes: 0

I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt. Votes: 0

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. Votes: 0

All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward. Votes: 0

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. Votes: 0

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. Votes: 0

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. Votes: 0

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. Votes: 0

My body has always been one to fluctuate, and I've had to adapt my style accordingly. Votes: 0

I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment. Votes: 0

You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing. Votes: 0

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Votes: 0

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people. Votes: 0

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. Votes: 0

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes. Votes: 0

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change. Votes: 0

Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes. Votes: 0

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. Votes: 0

After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. Votes: 0

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune. Votes: 0

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. Votes: 0

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. Votes: 0

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world. Votes: 0

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow. Votes: 0

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him. Votes: 0

If something goes wrong, don't whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward. Votes: 0

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. Votes: 0

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league. Votes: 0

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around. Votes: 0

I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year. Votes: 0

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. Votes: 0

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. Votes: 0

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Votes: 0

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community. Votes: 0

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment. Votes: 0

If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt. Votes: 0

I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well. Votes: 0

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. Votes: 0

When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition. Votes: 0

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation. Votes: 0

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Votes: 0

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them. Votes: 0

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Votes: 0

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. Votes: 0

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Votes: 0

The potential for social commerce today is “infinite”… Every ecommerce site will have to adapt Votes: 0

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time. Votes: 0

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. Votes: 0

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence. Votes: 0

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Votes: 0

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎ Votes: 0

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. Votes: 0

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt. Votes: 0

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. Votes: 0

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives. Votes: 0

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. Votes: 0

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. Votes: 0

I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles. Votes: 0

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative. Votes: 0

Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger. Votes: 0

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. Votes: 0

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could. Votes: 0

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. Votes: 0

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable. Votes: 0

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation. Votes: 0

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once. Votes: 0

I'm pretty versatile. I'm able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I'm with. Votes: 0

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. Votes: 0

As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective. Votes: 0

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas. Votes: 0

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Votes: 0

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change "¦ agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat. Votes: 0

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around. Votes: 0

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. Votes: 0

It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting. Votes: 0

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck. Votes: 0

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ... Votes: 0

[O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable. Votes: 0

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. Votes: 0

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times Votes: 0

You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt. Votes: 0

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea. Votes: 0

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate Votes: 0

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. Votes: 0

Mexican people are very warm and friendly. I was able to adjust and adapt the new environment. They are very kind and helpful. Votes: 0

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Votes: 0

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work. Votes: 0

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage. Votes: 0

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. Votes: 0

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. Votes: 0

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams. Votes: 0

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. Votes: 0

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. Votes: 0

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions. Votes: 0

To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived. Votes: 0

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition. Votes: 0

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it. Votes: 0

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources. Votes: 0

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die. Votes: 0

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. Votes: 0

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. Votes: 0

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in. Votes: 0

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. Votes: 0

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. Votes: 0

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur. Votes: 0

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change. Votes: 0

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Votes: 0

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time. Votes: 0

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood. Votes: 0

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. Votes: 0

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. Votes: 0

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Votes: 0

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory. Votes: 0

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy. Votes: 0

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression. Votes: 0

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures. Votes: 0

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show. Votes: 0

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts. Votes: 0

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality. Votes: 0

That's crazy," I say"In case you hadn't noticed, the whole world has gone crazy. It's time to adapt or die.""By throwing crazy at crazy? Votes: 0

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to. Votes: 0

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were. Votes: 0

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. Votes: 0

Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly. Votes: 0

The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal. Votes: 0

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way. Votes: 0

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises. Votes: 0

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. Votes: 0

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide. Votes: 0

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. Votes: 0

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt. Votes: 0

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way. Votes: 0

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology. Votes: 0

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. Votes: 0

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either. Votes: 0

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men. Votes: 0

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure. Votes: 0

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it. Votes: 0

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man. Votes: 0

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas. Votes: 0

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary. Votes: 0

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment. Votes: 0

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.' Votes: 0

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. Votes: 0

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done. Votes: 0

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever. Votes: 0

Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same. Votes: 0

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters. Votes: 0

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal. Votes: 0

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change. Votes: 0

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way. Votes: 0

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort. Votes: 0

Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants. Votes: 0

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing. Votes: 0

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win. Votes: 0

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference. Votes: 0

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. Votes: 0

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances. Votes: 0

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that. Votes: 0

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups. Votes: 0

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine. Votes: 0

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself. Votes: 0

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician. Votes: 0

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. Votes: 0

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between. Votes: 0

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking. Votes: 0

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time. Votes: 0

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change. Votes: 0

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt. Votes: 0

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are. Votes: 0

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. Votes: 0

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops. Votes: 0

I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend. Votes: 0

Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast. Votes: 0

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement. Votes: 0

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality. Votes: 0

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. Votes: 0

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months. Votes: 0

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game. Votes: 0

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability. Votes: 0

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo. Votes: 0

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. Votes: 0

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality. Votes: 0

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges Votes: 0

Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes. Votes: 0

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing. Votes: 0

I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances. Votes: 0

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast. Votes: 0

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions. Votes: 0

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it Votes: 0

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point. Votes: 0

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do. Votes: 0

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors. Votes: 0

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages. Votes: 0

Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die. Votes: 0

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world. Votes: 0

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough. Votes: 0

Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines. Votes: 0

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things. Votes: 0

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need. Votes: 0

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward. Votes: 0

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them. Votes: 0

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character. Votes: 0

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Votes: 0

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. Votes: 0

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera. Votes: 0

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures. Votes: 0

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial. Votes: 0

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. Votes: 0

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better. Votes: 0

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state. Votes: 0

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode. I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure. Votes: 0

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project. Votes: 0

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. Votes: 0

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad. Votes: 0

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it. Votes: 0

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December . Votes: 0

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Votes: 0

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful. Votes: 0

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life. Votes: 0

Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's coming at me in this world and to adapt. Votes: 0

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency. Votes: 0

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary. Votes: 0

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually. Votes: 0

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway. Votes: 0

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. Votes: 0

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. Votes: 0

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself. Votes: 0

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think! Votes: 0

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction. Votes: 0

They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn't anticipated its will to live. Votes: 0

I think the great thing about acting is that it's not all the same. You're constantly challenged and constantly pushed to your limit. It's nice to see how your body can adapt to these things. Votes: 0

I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette. Votes: 0

I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You've no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts. Votes: 0

I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it. Votes: 0

Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. Votes: 0

Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. Votes: 0

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do. Votes: 0

Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment. Votes: 0

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. Votes: 0

Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.) Votes: 0

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt. Votes: 0