Quotes About Adapt

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Whatever you do, do something else.

They have not considered that memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don't waste time. Don't figure out how or why it happened. Don't recriminate. Don't figure out whose fault it is. Don't work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

When things don't go right, go left

Every relationship reaches a stage where it reinvents itself or plays out.

Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong cue, you need to have the presence of mind to move the play along.

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence - i.e adapt to feedback.

Times are changing fast and we, as actors, need to upgrade our armoury every now and then.

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

I like to reinvent myself — it's part of my job.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

I don't like things set in stone.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

they don't just perform a job, they reinvent it. I own this.

It's not weak to recognize when it's time to shift directions.

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Borrow liberally, combine uniquely, and create your own bespoke blueprint.