Quotes About Versatility

I probably played too much on the left for my liking - I'm not that kind of player who is going to get the ball and run past the full-back. Of course if it happens, you've got to do a job for the team, and no problem. But I feel better - and think you get more out of me - playing me through the middle.

It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said 'no problem,' and I've played there ever since.

If I have to fight at 125, I'll do it. No problem.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Sometimes I sound like gravel and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

The very processes and values that constitute an organization's capabilities in one context, define its disabilities in another context.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Line 130: I never bounced a ball or swung a bat Frankly I too never excelled in soccer and cricket; I am a passable horseman, a vigorous though unorthodox skier, a good skater, a tricky wrestler, and an enthusiastic mountain climber.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Nothing works for everybody.

while you will have your tailored fifteen responses to each ask you make, when you hear something that you did not expect, just add it to the list.

There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

varied as religion, writing, mathematics, music and dance, horsemanship, martial arts, and

Your skills should transcend technology platform

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.