Quotes About Adaptability

Rumor had it that during the last home stand, someone had called the stadium ticket office asking what time the game started and was told, "What time can you be here?

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

You can't fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best.

Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day. Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see?

Adaptability is the essence of survival. —from the Azhar Book

Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.

We have moved from the Age of Manpower to the Age of Mind-power. In this new age, you are no longer rewarded for the hours you put in but for what you put into those hours.

The only skill that will be important in the twenty-first century will be the skill of learning new skills. All else will eventually become obsolete.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.

Despite the meatiness of his fingers, Dominick showed himself to be a nimble texter.

It's been said that no two species are more alike than wolves and humans. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it's hard to escape that conclusion.

It's been said that no two species are more alike than wolves and humans. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it's hard to escape that conclusion. Living as we do in family packs, fending off the human wolves among us, managing the wolves within us, we can easily recognize in real wolves their social dilemmas and their status quests. No wonder Native Americans saw wolves as a sibling spirit.

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

You humans have a certain talent for adaptability--at least in the short term.