Quotes About Adaptation

Steel is a normal, hard, polished substance. But if you put it in a hot fire it will become red, soft, and not to be handled. If you put it in a fire still more hot it will drip away. It was like that with Leonora. She was made for normal circumstances.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

I don't think it would be good if they stayed always

This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, it proved extremely popular and Burnett followed this with an equally popular dramatisation of the serial, re-named The Little Princess. Burnett was then persuaded to re-write the fictional version under the new name, whilst including the numerous amendments she had made to the story in the play.

They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I've heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?

Though much had been changed, I felt the spirit of the book was intact, and even enhanced by her vision.

I will translate myself into a new language.

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Take my eye, I say. I have another.

Little by little we surfaced from the dark gluey depths of that summer, bobbing into the blinding light we had to relearn how to breathe

Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.

All he'd done was change scenery, not his mind.

Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

È invariabilmente triste guardare con occhi nuovi cose alle quali ci eravamo già adattati.

You never came out the way you came in.

A leadership team cannot be effective if its understanding of change is erroneous, incomplete, misinformed or outdated.

Only fools prefer the past!

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?