Quotes About Adaptable

I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mike isn't in the right place when I go on, I just move it. Other people, they'll be all frantic. I'm more relaxed.

We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't release a song that belongs on 'The Stage' 20 years into our career. We want it to be an album that constantly grows with what we want to do, and that's what we did.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.

We want to hire people who are self-learners.

The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.

I'm a hop-around kind of guy. I jump into hobbies, and I jump out of them.

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through it. But that's OK.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

I was an athlete, but I hung out with the band guys. I was adaptable.

Whether it's Al Michaels, when the earthquake happened in San Francisco and his ability to handle it like Walter Cronkite would have handled it, or Bob Costas with his overview of what's happening with worldly events at the Olympics and the perspective that he has there, you know these guys are so well read.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

Are you going to get offended when someone says something that is counter to your worldview? I think you need to be willing to change your worldview or, at least, be open to other people's ideas.

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.

There are not too many people who are polymathic these days.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.