Quotes About Adaptation

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

When you start the game, coaches will tell you to do stuff in a particular way, and kids do that. But the moment you start first-class cricket, the coach needs to tell you, 'Try this, try that,' instead of, 'Do this, do that.' If you feel comfortable, you can take it; otherwise, leave it.

I have learned a lot playing in domestic first-class cricket: how to score runs, how to counter situations.

Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.

You have to just adjust to the conditions quickly because there is a big difference in 50-over and 20-over cricket, and if you back yourself, you will do well.

I've been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

When I came back into the side in 2009 I had to play more aggressively, and did. But I should never have played 127 times for England in one day cricket.

It is certainly not how I've been brought up and it's not in my blood to play cricket in that safety-first way.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

In Ranji cricket, I am used heavily as a bowler, but in international cricket I hardly get four overs, and sometimes I never even get to bowl and bat at number eight.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

I take constructive criticism really well.