Quotes About Versatility

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

It isn't a question of whether elephants can prevail over ants. It's a question of whether a particular elephant can dance. If it can, the ants must leave the dance floor.

NECK: I am flexible. I welcome other viewpoints.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

A Master Craftsman of Acting, like Daniel Day-Lewis, spends years selecting, preparing, and acting for just a single film. He is not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Whatsoever thing confronted her, whatsoever problem encountered her, whatsoever manners became her in novel situations, she understood in a moment. She solved the problem, she assumed the manners, she spoke and acted as the need of the moment required." Andrew Lang, "The Maid of France."

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

It struck Lacy that she didn't really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

Perhaps the most important problem-solving skill that I have learned and practiced over the years is mental agility.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.

Design really can be anything.

Style is to forget all styles.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.