#adapt

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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

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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. ↗

— Frank Pittman

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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. ↗

— Norman Jewison

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I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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