If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.
Lydia Davis
StyleWritingStoryProblemsAdapt
I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
Kim Campbell
PeopleAdaptWayAlwaysMustNeeds
The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.
Juliette Binoche
MotherChildrenBestAdaptWellWho
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
Gwyneth Paltrow
GoodExperienceAdaptSayWantWay
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
FragranceAdaptFranceMustOneself
The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Bill Gates
GreenRevolutionAdaptThreeFocused
It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
Whit Stillman
ChallengeBestYouAdaptBeyondGet
No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.
Reinhard Bonnke
GodAdaptMatterHimAlwaysUs
We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
Neil Harbisson
IdeasBodyFindCopyNewAdapt
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
Kazuo Ishiguro
SchoolDoingBackAdaptWantMy Own
Some things are difficult to adapt to.
Ahmet Davutoglu
AdaptDifficultThingsSome
The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people.
Yusaku Maezawa
TimePeopleClothesNewAdaptOver
Times change and you have to adapt.
Jerry Cantrell
ChangeYouAdaptTimes
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
StressYouNewAdaptWellHow
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.
Andrew Dost
OutdoorsThinkYouRulesPlayAdapt
Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
Rachel Simmons
GirlPowerAdaptSometimesTrueOut
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of baby spinach to a fruit smoothie and may hardly even taste it. Next, try two. Slowly, your taste buds can adapt to more greens.
Michael Greger
BabyGreenFruitYouAdaptBuild
Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.
Om Malik
StoryAdaptWayTextingWithout
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
John Prendergast
RacismSlaveryAdaptHumanAbuse
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
Laura Chinchilla
GovernmentForwardAdaptTryOthers
You can't underestimate rest. Sometimes in tennis we don't realize that to rest your body is as important as it is to practice. We are traveling so much, all year, in different conditions, different courts, different surfaces, different balls - so we always have to adapt.
Stan Wawrinka
PracticeRestYearYouBodyAdapt
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Ian Frazier
HumorPeopleDeepAdaptRussia
Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.
Ski Mask the Slump God
YourselfYouNobodyAdaptSayTell
I adapt my driving style more or less to anything, from go-kart to motorbike to wet, more downforce, less downforce, Pirelli, Bridgestone, Michelin, V8, V6, whatever.
Fernando Alonso
StyleDrivingAdaptMoreAnything
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