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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan Perlis
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
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
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
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
It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy. -- Juanes
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment. -- Joe Barton
Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. -- Jonathan Tropper
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. -- Joseph Wambaugh
Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead. -- James Franco
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. -- Ambrose Bierce
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting. -- Kelly Link
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. -- William O. Douglas
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
Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives -- Joan Ruddock
So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius. -- Sun Tzu
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." -- Nick Swardson
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound. -- Ed Stetzer
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
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. -- Rob Dyrdek
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. -- Peter Jackson
While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths. -- Jerry Falwell
Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation. -- Narendra Modi
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls. -- Willa Holland
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
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting. -- Gail Sheehy
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. -- Drew Goddard
I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. -- Bruce Lee
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again. -- Christopher Hitchens
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost. -- Sun Tzu
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability (and) causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately. -- Bruce Lee
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary. -- Kendrick Lamar
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. -- Jackie Chan
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. -- William Hague
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. -- Josh Hutcherson
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. -- Nicholas Mosley
I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth. -- Joe Barton
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. -- Moshe Safdie
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?' -- Robert Kiyosaki
I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. -- Susanna Kearsley
I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet. -- Neil Marshall
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. -- Linus Torvalds
I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched. -- Gautam Gambhir
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
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4. -- Rachel Joyce
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity. -- Cary Fowler
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role. -- Yara Shahidi
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and working out how to live with it. -- Spencer Wells
The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges. -- Nayvadius Cash
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. -- George Eastman
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. -- Peter Drucker
I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing. -- Anthony Pettis
I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things. -- Sean Durkin
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. -- George Gissing
Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something. -- Chad Hodge
Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive? -- Fred Emery
I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had. -- Sergio Aguero
By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint. -- Bob Deutsch
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. -- Samuel Butler
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required. -- Allison Mackie
If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success. -- Martin Zwilling
I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums. -- Bing Gordon
I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums. -- Bing Gordon
I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene. -- Dominic Cooper
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect. -- Bear Grylls
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. -- Paula Abdul
The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television. -- Caitlin Doughty
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. -- Andrew Davies
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. -- Billy Corgan
I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now. -- Gregory Heisler
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. -- Gunnar Nelson
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. -- Bret Easton Ellis
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. -- Thomas Friedman
In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference. -- Girl234
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. -- Lasse Hallstrom
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 -- Arianna Huffington
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. -- Beatrice Lillie
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life -- William James
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. -- Peter Drucker
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. -- Jason Mraz
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. -- Tom Cruise
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree. -- Anna Maria Chavez
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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it. -- Adam McKay
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal. -- George Gaylord Simpson
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. -- Tom Perrotta
Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet. -- Tim Shieff
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? -- Joichi Ito
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! -- Ben Elton
The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life. -- Michelle Malkin
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II. -- Warren Christopher
I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart. -- Len Elmore
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. -- Calvin Coolidge
Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades. -- David Hayter
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. -- Katie Holmes
I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format. -- Reese Witherspoon
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. -- John Burns
I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen. -- Luke Temple
We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate. -- Dillon Lane
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. -- Roger Bannister
From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's drawings. They're so unique to comics, but they're a voice. -- Brian Michael Bendis

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