Quotes About Adaptability

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

If you want to be a creative person, then you're gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn't a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

Just because I evolved, doesn't mean I am spineless. Just because I am malleable, doesn't mean I am undeserving

swayed and stretched, but it was sturdy enough to hold their

People think I am trying to keep my ideas a secret, said Leonardo. But, in truth, I am left-handed, and when I write normally from left to right, I smear ink across the page. One day I realized that if I wrote backward, I would not be so messy. (p. 62)

Capacity to Tolerate Boredom and Low Levels of Stimulation" is one of the recommended attributes on a Space Shuttle–era document drafted by the NASA In-House Working Group on Psychiatric and Psychological Selection of Astronauts.

I belong to a different generation, I suppose. The old soothing methods do not occur to us. We don't like our bruises patted or kissed. And our usual answer to any emergency is a drink.

Until Oklahoma! they were, despite the money he made, always very hand-to-mouth, a situation my mother managed with great agility, a nose for bargains, and a flair for double-entry bookkeeping. I used to brag about that last one, having no idea what it meant.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

These new people had something special: they were not prisoners of their ecological niche, but could change their habits quite easily if prey disappeared, or better opportunities arose.

fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.