Adapting Quotes

• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Strength, Struggle

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• I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Believe, Order

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

  Robert Sternberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Changing Environment

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• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

  Stephen Hawking

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Nolan Ryan

  Change, Success, Leadership

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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  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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Science, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.91, 谷月社

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Book, Enjoy, My Own

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Shapes, Speak, Metaphor

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• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

  Ernie Pyle

  Feet, Light, Soldier

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• Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Spiritual, Future

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thank You, Mean, Want

  "I have been through a lot. As I get older I've more to give". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• You are what you love. Not what loves you.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Love You, Adaptation, What You Love

  Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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• The first day of the rest of my life.

  Lee Child

  Good Morning, Beauty, Live Life

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.633, Delacorte Press

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• Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

  Herbert Simon

  Environment, Permanent Change, Produce

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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

  John Laroche

  Mean, Profound, World

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• One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Successful, Years

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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