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Quotes about Adaptation

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
- Coco Chanel
See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.
- Jen Sincero
You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.
- Stellan Skarsgard
The artificial leg was like an alien body, fitted to mine. Both had to respond to each other.
- Sudha Chandran
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
- Ian Mckellen
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
- Clayton M. Christensen
It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.
- Robert Wright
Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.
- Robert Wright
Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.
- Robert Wright
He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation
- Robin Jones Gunn
Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.
- Louise Hay