Quotes About Adaptability

Cats learn early on that very little is accomplished by worrying. Cats also know that things have a way of working out, even when the means are kept hidden from us. Best to deal with things as they arise, and let the future take care of itself.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Vimes felt a sudden surge of civic pride. There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants.

Swing, though, started in the wrong place. He didn't look around, and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought: This is how the people ought to be, how do we change them?' And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper, because Swing's patient, pedantic way of operating had turned policing on its head.

To be a leader you have to learn to shout! But after you've learned to shout, you have to learn not to!

The anger rose up, joyfully. 'Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.

Hiring and onboarding approaches, sales and marketing processes, budgeting practices, incentive structures, performance evaluation and management systems, and every other organizational system, structure, and process can be conceived and deployed in inward-mindset or outward-mindset ways. Organizations that are serious about operating with an outward mindset turn these systems and processes outward to invite and reinforce outward-mindset working.

people who consistently work with an outward mindset excel in three ways that those who work with an inward mindset do not. They 1. see the needs, objectives, and challenges of others 2. adjust their efforts to be more helpful to others 3. measure and hold themselves accountable for the impact of their work on others

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I'd work with anyone that the script requires me to. I'd never let my personal biases rule my judgement.

I like to do one film at a time. But sometimes, when projects get delayed for reasons beyond my control, I juggle more than one.

If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.

I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.

We really just fit our work in and around the family's needs. I'm not juggling it all brilliantly, I'm doing my best.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in the sand.

After junior cricket, if the team wanted me to keep in a one-off/odd match or if anyone got injured, I was up for it. I kept in One-dayers and T20s.