Quotes About Adaptability

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who had lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.

Si ella puede hacer canastos con las patas, tú puedes tocar la guitarra sin dedos.

Alba estiró la mano y él se la estrechó con la izquierda. Entonces ella notó que le faltaban varios dedos de la mano derecha, pero él le explicó que a pesar de eso podía tocar la guitarra, porque siempre hay una forma de hacer lo que uno quiere hacer.

Mi teoría y práctica es qué hay que decir SÍ a la vida y ya veré por el camino como me las arreglo.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

The thing with Led Zeppelin songs is that they were never the same. They were very fluid and tight but loose.

I can play in many sorts of categories because we've seen that with Led Zeppelin, all the acoustic stuff, and this, that and the other.

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

I had zero interest in banking, but the mountainous pile of legal training contract rejections forced me to look elsewhere. As a malleable graduate, I, as many students do, took whatever I could get.

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

I don't worry about a zombie apocalypse. Mainly because it's unlikely, but also because I think I'd be pretty good in that type of emergency.

Actors require flexibility, a kind of openness and readiness to leave their comfort zone.

One of the main reasons people get bullied, in any walk of life, is because they are different. So I think that to throw kids in at the deep end when they are young is a good thing. It gets them used to other people and some of the things they will face. It takes them out of their comfort zone.

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

For 'Manikarnika', I've learnt horse riding and sword fighting, so I have gone out of my comfort zone.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

One of the beauties of working in Shondaland is that they make an effort to get to know who you are, so they're not giving you something that's going to be so far out of your comfort zone.

I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a guy who's 5-8. Where does it draw the line? One guy stands tall, and another squats down, and it changes the lines. Nah. I still love the umpires; they do a great job. I don't have a problem with any of that.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.