Quotes About Adjustment

What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

We used to be such prima donnas.

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.

Your problems never cease. They just change.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

It's only when a project or film doesn't work, that you think about what you could have done differently - whether you chose unwisely, or was there something in your application in that role, as an actor, as a director or as a producer, that you could have done better.

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

I wouldn't say I have done the best in scoring goals, but I have developed my game in a different way.

I'm used to having the ball, man. So, not really having the ball in my hands... it's just me trying to find different ways to impact the game.