Adapt Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

Change, Ability

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Yourself, Live

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Nature, Imperative, Perish

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

Men, Around, Changed

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
Marilyn Manson

Change, Why, Kid

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan

Success, Change, True

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos

Change, Human, Become

A true champion can adapt to anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein

Oneself, France, Fragrance

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran

Freedom, Mind, Long

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
James Lovelock

Life, Earth, Changes

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.
Frank Knight

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki

Brain, Old, Used

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
Marc Andreessen

Technology, Changes, Along

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola

Movies, Book, Wanted

You adapt to who you're photographing.
David Bailey

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson

Children, Living, Remarkable

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
LL Cool J

Music, Trying, Keep

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
James Wolcott

Book, Different, Others

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock

Life, Dance, Earth

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.
Jamie Foxx

Time, Women, Heart

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Career, Fame, Pass

You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment.
Jong-yong Yun

Change, Constantly

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan

Change, Future, Order

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Good, Experience, Original

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
Katherine Jenkins

Time, Best, Travel

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

May, Him, Jesus

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
Christopher Alexander

Life, Cannot, Fail

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.
Lynn Redgrave

Needed, Nervous, Implants

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Kevin Kelly

Design, Made, Far

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