Quotes About Adaptability

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.