Quotes About Adaptable

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

The Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.

Customs are better understood as a living, negotiated tissue of practices which are continually being adapted to new ecological and social circumstances—including, of course, power relations. Customary systems of tenure should not be romanticized; they are usually riven with inequalities based on gender, status, and lineage. But because they are strongly local, particular, and adaptable, their plasticity can be the source of microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practice.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

To be honest, if we're underdogs, we like it; if we're favorites, I like it. It's something that you cannot let affect you.

I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.

To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water.

True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I'm a sponge, man. I'm a learner.

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

I'm a Gemini, very spontaneous.

I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.