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Quotes About Adaptation

I really miss dancing all day long. But something I really love is not dancing all day long. I love that I can't rely on dancing all day long to stay creative.
~ Wendy Whelan
We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
~ James Dyson
Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.
~ Michael Hayden
You're only as good as what you've been. You can't rely on the past.
~ Billy Butler
If I'm not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I'm comfortable doing that now.
~ Gary Woodland
I would be nowhere without my mistakes. I rely on them.
~ Mariette Hartley
Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.
~ Barry Trotz
Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can take anymore. Simply relying on the sheer horsepower of the machine will not bring the industry a bright future.
~ Satoru Iwata
The coronavirus pandemic has been emotionally taxing for all families, and this time is especially disruptive for those relying on carefully built routines and support systems.
~ Michelle Wu
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
~ Charles Duhigg
I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
~ Olivier Martinez
I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.
~ Emmanuel Macron
When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.
~ Hisham Matar
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
~ Talib Kweli
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
~ Dalai Lama
I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed.
~ Merce Cunningham
As you go along the way, you learn new things, but my basic game has remained the same. You learn about the mental aspect of the game as in how to disturb the flow of the bowlers. You get matured with experience.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
~ KT Tunstall
I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the same.
~ Rohini Nilekani
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
~ Edward M. Lerner
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
~ George Gurdjieff
Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.
~ Ellen Goodman