Quotes About Adaptability

I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.

Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.

I am used to playing in six different positions in my career, so that's not an issue for me. I have always changed positions, and I don't expect any different. It's all the same to me. It's all about the way you interpret it.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!

That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.

To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It's just incredible to watch!

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

With Red Skelton, you could fall flat on your face and he'd do his sketch around it.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it's 9 at night. It's a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.

But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn't necessarily me.

Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.

It's not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

The better the competition is, the more skilled guys are, the more fundamental you have to be.

Rather than make excuses for their failures, resilient people learn from each mistake. They identify skills, ideas, and life lessons that can be gained from each failed opportunity.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.