Quotes About Adaptability

Saber lo que es posible, establecer unas expectativas realistas y comunicarlas con la suficiente claridad para que tu equipo te siga, en especial en un entorno en el que todo el mundo quiere resultados inmediatos, es una de las aptitudes para el liderazgo más difíciles de conseguir.

I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

My wife says [parenting] is a test of your capacity to deal with disorder and unpredictability -- a test you can't study for, and one whose results aren't always reassuring.

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

I believe that an actor should be like water, free-flowing and extremely flexible.

If some baboons just happen to be good at seeing water holes as half full instead of half empty... we should be able to as well.

With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get rid of this or that.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

I always say it's not how big the wave is, it's how you ride it.