Quotes About Adaptable

But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;

He never understood that the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

touche à tout', and until I was twelve or so

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn't kill people, though. I was just a badass

Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless

ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE aspects of Churchill's approach to leadership was his ability to switch tracks in an instant and focus earnestly on things that any other prime minister would have found trivial. Depending on one's perspective, this was either an endearing trait or a bedevilment.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

I'll play wherever they want me to play -anywhere on the field. Do anything to help the team win. Whether that's playing left field or third base or wherever, I don't care.

I've always seen myself as a midfielder but wherever I'm being told to play in the middle or somewhere, I will always give my best.

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

I live wherever I happen to be.

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.