Quotes About Adaptability

I understand my teammates. I know which teammates you can get on during the game, and which respond better to constructive criticism.

I know with Coach Messina I started to understand where my teammates were, how to use them and make them better for the benefit of the team.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that's me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.

Good teams have good rotation.

When the hell did things one who comes up with the wacky, impossible plans. I'm supposed to be the general here. Now I'm barely a lieutenant.

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

Their only real endowments were soft skills such as a willingness to accept the help of strangers, stubborn practicality, and the ability to live with uncertainty.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Robert Baden-Powell

Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it. Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.

Tyhle kapitoly vás zklamou, pokud si myslíte, že v nich najdete úplný a p?esný návod, jak vést skautský oddíl. Cht?l bych tu jen ukázat a nabídnout základní sm?r cesty k úsp?chu a zd?vodnit jej.

What if your company has made a commitment to a certain database, or a certain web server, or a certain framework? A good architect pretends that the decision has not been made, and shapes the system such that those decisions can still be deferred or changed for as long as possible. A good architect maximizes the number of decisions not made.

A good manager drives a project to be good enough, fast enough, cheap enough, and done as much as necessary. A good manager manages the coefficients on these attributes rather than demanding that all those coefficients are 100%. It is this kind of management that Agile strives to enable.

Good software designs accommodate change without huge investments and rework. When we use code that is out of our control, special care must be taken to protect our investment and make sure future change is not too costly.

The way you keep software soft is to leave as many options open as possible, for as long as possible. What are the options that we need to leave open? They are the details that don't matter.

If you can develop the high-level policy without committing to the details that surround it, you can delay and defer decisions about those details for a long time. And the longer you wait to make those decisions, the more information you have with which to make them properly.

One sure way to make a software component difficult to change, is to make lots of other software components depend on it.

A good architecture makes it unnecessary to decide on Rails, or Spring, or Hibernate, or Tomcat, or MySQL, until much later in the project. A good architecture makes it easy to change your mind about those decisions, too. A good architecture emphasizes the use cases and decouples them from peripheral concerns

LEAVING OPTIONS OPEN