Quotes About Adaptability

To me, it's about being smart, knowing when to go down and if you're on the sidelines knowing when to go out of bounds, and I think I do a pretty good job of doing that.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.

We're smarter and more innovative when we're diverse.

I never want to be the most experienced or the smartest person in the room.

The greatest moment of all was her on set, and she said, 'Would you mind if you change the order of the phrase?' Maggie Smith asking me if I could change the line, asking politely, using my name!

I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any character very smoothly.

I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

Just being a Pennsylvania kid, I've played in the snow before. I don't know. I can still cut and run, like it's not snow.

It was never a thing that bothered me, being cold or if there's snow. It never fazed me.

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed up. I said, 'No problem, I'll do it.' If there's one or 100 on the mat, the juice is still there.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

I see people every day who think they're the be all and end all of the industry. I've seen so many people come and go, but the industry doesn't revolve around one person.

My gears that I have to go through... One minute in my mind to be Beyonce and one minute to be Rihanna and one second to do a hook for Kanye and then have to write records for myself. I'm so many people, I'm never just one person. So I don't have to reinvent because artists around me reinvent for me.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.

4. Always Do Your Best Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.

Any organization's competitiveness, ability to adapt, and culture arise from the routines and habits by which the people in the organization conduct themselves every day. It is an issue of human behavior.

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.