Quotes About Adaptation

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

Honestly, I don't know why we can't transfer the mentality we have in the Champions League to Serie A.

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

A lot of people do run well at 60m but can't transfer it to the 100m because there's still 40m to go, and anything can happen in that last section.

I've never asked for a transfer anywhere, but I've been constantly moving around. It's frustrating.

Each transfer brings a change to the dressing room that I must protect - that is my job.

We know the transfer market is not an easy period for players, for their minds, for their preparations, too, for their bodies.

I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.

Difference is respected and the environment Eoin Morgan has created is such that we are encouraged to transfer our personalities into our cricket.

I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.

The best thing - I say it all the time - what happened at Oklahoma was sitting for a year after I transferred. To sit there and be able to focus on the physical parts of my body. You know, develop, and then the mental side of the game, learning.

After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It became my little diary I could refer to. I took little quotes out of the book and transferred them onto this scrapbook I kept about Amma.

Everything goes fast in football. You can be transferred tomorrow, as you can be in one or two years.

I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without knowing anything about ballet. I learned it as a routine.

My sophomore year, I transferred from a public high school to an arts school, and, obviously, it didn't have any sports for me to do.

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

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.