Quotes About Adaptability

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I always use the basic quality of people to achieve what I want to achieve. That's a different way of thinking. I always love that they do things. And when it goes wrong, well, try to correct it in one way or another.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

I come from a school of thoughts where I actually don't plan anything.

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

A good model isn't just about being pretty or even beautiful, it's the ability to be a chameleon and change and adapt to the situation or setting of a photo shoot.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

In the Invitation step, kids get practice at considering a range of solutions to a problem, considering the likely outcomes of those solutions, and shifting from a solution that only works for them to a solution that will work for other people, too.

When you use Plan B, you do so with the understanding that the solution is not predetermined. If you already know how the problem is going to be solved before you start trying to solve it, then you're not using Plan B . . . you're using a "clever" form of Plan A. Plan B is not just a "clever" form of Plan A. Plan B is collaborative, Plan A is unilateral.