Quotes About Adaptability

A dynamic team cannot rely solely on orders; they must be able to read each others' every move so they can act as parts of a coordinated whole.

My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

A lot of successful teams are based on having two or three solid partners that rarely change.

While one is in the process of coming up with a truly innovative solution, it is essential to keep an open mind.

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.

One cannot be dogmatic about the right solution.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

Of course, when you lose any game, the feeling is so bad. But you have to be professional and have to be clever and overcome this situation and try to work on that and try to fix the problem and solve for the next game.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

I wanted to demonstrate that Deathstroke does not need to solve every problem with his fists.

I'm comfortable with bad news. I feel confident in my ability to solve the problem if I know that there's a problem.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Everybody that's on a set - from the director to the grips to the electricians - it's all about problem solving. So, as empowered as you can make everybody feel, that's really important.

Some people think I can only do fancy; I don't know why. I'm a pretty easy person, really. Low maintenance. I get on with things, and I'm comfortable anywhere.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

I think if somebody knows how to play the game, he or she can play anywhere. You know how to fit in.