Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.
Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.
I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here. '
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
