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

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

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

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
Vernor Vinge

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

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
John Hutton

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

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

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

Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast.
Sanjay Kumar

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
Joseph Wambaugh

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
Kim Campbell

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

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.
Todd Solondz

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
Trevor Dunn

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
Marc Ribot

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.
Claudia Christian

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

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