Quotes About Adaptability

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.