Top 100 Adapting Quotes

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

Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don’t have a match at the same time every week, so it’s important to be open with everything.

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you’ll never ask, ‘Why doesn’t the painting look like the sculpture?’

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

I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author’s own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of ‘Dracula’ is appetite.

In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.

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

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

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that’s good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.

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.

A lot of those soft skills – working with groups of people who I’ve never met before to accomplish a mission, adapting to personality types – those are skills I’ve learned outside the SEAL time.

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.

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.

Jesus did not always like the Apostles’ way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, ‘I’m doing something completely different here.’

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

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.

In football, I’ve always been about adapting to what’s asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I’m a team player.

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

What other people are adapting from the comics medium, I watch with as much interest as I do any other movies. Because I’m a fan, and I want to see what other people are doing in the world.

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, ‘I should be doing that. They didn’t even ask me.’ Some mistake, surely.

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

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

When you are adapting a book to a visual medium, you tend to leave a few things and add a few new ones.

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

I haven’t had many problems adapting to the Premier League.

Adapting a book doesn’t mean the book stops just because you’ve made a film out of it.

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

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.

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

In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods to Jewish sensibilities and dietary laws and then spreading them.

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?

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

What Black Lives Matter is doing is a deliberate inversion of the proper processes of historical analysis. It is beginning with a conclusion. And it is adapting facts to that conclusion. You should begin with the facts and work forward to a conclusion.

In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions – and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn’t do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you’re thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That’s your main focus.

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.

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.

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

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.

I’m always a big advocate for adapting to your new team, your new country and your new team-mates.

There is always a reverence issue, and I’m no different from any audience member that if someone’s adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don’t want them to screw it up.

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.

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

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

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.

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.

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

I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position.

The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life that allow one to keep pace. This is the cultural capital that whites too often take for granted and rarely think of insisting on in the former victims of exclusion.

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.

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