Adapt
Fitted; suited.
To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
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Adapt Quotations
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
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
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
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
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
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.
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
James Lovelock
Adapt Translations
adapt in Dutch is afstemmen, aanpassen, adapteren
adapt in French is adaptez, aligner, adapter, adaptent, adaptons
adapt in German is anpassen, angleichen
adapt in Italian is uniformare
adapt in Latin is adapto, commodo, accommodo
adapt in Norwegian is tilpasse, bearbeide
adapt in Portuguese is adapte
adapt in Spanish is asimilar, acomodar, adaptar
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