Quotes About Adaptability

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.

It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.