Quotes About Adaptability

Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!

I've had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves.

I try to kind of surf the waves as they come and stay loose so that if anything does throw me off balance, I'm kind of floppy enough to roll with it.

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

There are many ways to be a leader.

The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

You need to be very adaptable to have a long career. If you're not taught by somebody who knows different styles you'll be left by the wayside very quickly.

Computer science teaches and nurtures the type of thinking that 21st century citizens will need to address 21st century issues. We cannot know with any certainty what those challenges will be, but we can arm our students with the tools needed to address them.

We cannot do just one type of movies always.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.

I started playing futsal in the favela because it was the closest pitch to where we lived. I think it was good for me, playing in a small space like that. You have to think and act quickly.

I'm comfortable anywhere, as long as it's on the pitch.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

I could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.

I'm the kind of person who always has a Plan B. I don't want to go into anything without another option.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.