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Adapt Quotes

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

– Azzedine Alaia

I’m a strong fighter, I’m a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

– Canelo Alvarez

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

– Ahmet Davutoglu

It’s fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

– Brian Selznick

I’m glad nobody has asked me to adapt ‘Wuthering Heights’ because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

– Andrew Davies

You adapt to who you’re photographing.

– David Bailey

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

– Gene Kelly

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

– Christopher Hampton

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

– Edwin Louis Cole

You know I’ve never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it’s all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

– Norman Lloyd

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

– Mitch Kapor

As a singer, I float around. I’m kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what’s going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

– Daryl Hall

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

– Pope Francis

The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

– Eden Hazard

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, ‘Oh well, it’s cold there, lethally cold.’ But the reality is you adapt to weather… Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

– Dan Buettner

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

– Dhani Jones

I’m too old to adapt to somebody else’s ways.

– Claudia Christian

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

– Fernando Torres

I’ve always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.

– Chris Jericho

An employee who’s one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

– Gary Hamel

It’s so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

– Marie-Chantal Claire

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

– Diane Wood

Things you don’t expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can’t let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

– Mikaela Shiffrin

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

– Charles Leadbeater

I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

– Eden Hazard

I have never come across a technology that doesn’t change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

– Gijs de Vries

Abusive relationships go on and on. You’re in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

– Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We’ve been able to adapt nicely. It’s given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.

– Dennis Franz

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

– Paul Auster

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

– Clarence Day

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