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Adaptation Quotes


"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it."


"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."


"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."


"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."


"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me."


"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."


"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."


"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."


"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"


"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."


"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."


"If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean."


"I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out."


"Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story."


"We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough."


"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."


"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."


"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."


"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."


"In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing."


"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."


"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."


"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."


"When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation."


"We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment."


"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."


"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."


"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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