Quotes About Adaptability

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

It's so important that we tell customers what's going on as best as we can. And we're trying to do that. We don't often know ourselves, for so many different factors, but reliability, flexibility, and information are the three critical customer service orientations.

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.

Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.

I'm becoming a more complete player. I have more shots. I can rely more on my putting, rely on my short game.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

My wife, Lauren, is a remarkably good sport and one of the most adaptable personalities I've ever met.

Miami is a remarkably resilient, opportunistic team.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

When I get scored on or something doesn't go my way, I think of what I'm able to do and I'm reminded that I'm capable of doing it. I'm honest about myself - I know I'm not going to stop everything, so I don't try for perfection. I'm going to try to get there, but I know I'll never be perfect. I think that helps me to deal with everything.

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.