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The question this year will be has Joe adapted to calling plays at a comfort level where he feels like he can get it done? .. With the Washington Redskins, the question is, yeah [quarterback] Patrick Ramsey is the new starter, but how will Joe Gibbs adapt? And he wouldn't want the pressure any place else. It's perfectly placed and he's the man who can handle it and I think he's learned a lot. (Quote by - Joe Theismann)

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts. (Quote by - Richard Myers)

I think we match up really well with them, especially if we can get our fans into it and use them also. But we definitely match up well with them in a sense that they adapt and we adapt, so it'll be exciting. (Quote by - Jana Harrigan)

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. (Quote by - K. Okakaura)

In addition to mitigating climate warming, we should also be focusing on how to adapt. In the last few years people have realized that climate change will happen. Adapting is not a choice - it's something we need to do. (Quote by - Richard Klein)

Emily's tough. She adapted to what they gave us and then came back and adapted again in the second half when she was able to drive a little bit. (Quote by - Bill Ipsen)

We adapted to Jon rather than have Jon adapt to us. (Quote by - Jennifer Owensby)

I do not claim to have the answers. All I claim to have is an open mind that is willing to adapt to new information as it becomes available. (Quote by - Leif Ericsson Leo Veness)

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel. (Quote by - Emma Thompson)

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?. (Quote by - Joichi Ito)

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. (Quote by - Clarissa)

If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain. (Quote by - Ivan Urlaub)

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. (Quote by - William Frederick Book)

I think I'm going to have to adapt to the team much more than they're going to have to adapt to me. I'm a rookie. I might be very old for a rookie, but I am one. So I'm going to adjust to the team. (Quote by - Sarunas Jasikevicius)

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

The film came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I had read three different short stories of hers. And so what I wanted to do was to find a way to link all of her stories together. It ended up definitely being an adaptation, but also our own sort of overall story. We were just trying to imagine the life of that character. (Quote by - Lisanne Skyler)

We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution. (Quote by - Michael Novacek)

He's adapted quicker than I thought he would. I'd rate him right now around the 15- to 20-fight range in terms of adaptability ? settling down and learning how to pace himself and break a man down. (Quote by - Virgil Hunter)

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. (Quote by - German Proverb)

They haven't adapted very quickly, but they are adapting. You can tell there's a little bit of depression and acting out -- but we expected that. (Quote by - Jan Hensley)

Once the body gets accustomed, it's going to adapt and overcome. Every cell adapts and adjusts and overcomes. I don't believe in rules. I believe in breaking them. That's how you learn. (Quote by - Bob Miller)

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