Quotes About Adaptation

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.?

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

No experience is ever wasted.

Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

That's the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can't make them all better.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.