Quotes About Adaptability

Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

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I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.

Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.

Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.

Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

One of the things that's wonderful about having a festival in a small town like Enniskillen is that we don't have lots of purpose-built venues so we have to be creative about where we place events.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

This medium of stop-motion, it can be much more than it's been kind of defined as - it's not just a creaky and anachronistic way of making films, it actually is a very vital art form that can do wonderful things if put in the right hands.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

I've always worked with different mediums whether it's melting gold to make teeth, working with wood and paint or bending sound in a music studio.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.