Quotes About Adaptability

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.

JanSport thinks about everything that a person in the 21st century would need, and then creates a pocket for it.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

My whole life, I've felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.

I can play off the ball some, and that's fine with me as long as I can be out on the floor. But I am definitely more natural as a point guard than I am as a two guard.

I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

I play everything but point guard.

I played point guard in the past and I know myself.