Quotes About Versatility

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

a simple question can trigger a simple response that's appropriate in one environment and completely wrong in another.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

you can do a couple of days a week, then do something else. It's a bit like being an athlete. You have to keep fit and nimble.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.

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

The perfect diamond has many facets. It's almost never that the same hand cuts them all.

You are a man of many talents, King Jaxon." Creases deepened around his eyes. "And you, Queen Jezelia, are a woman of surprising strengths.

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell

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

Thought leaders develop a bank of ideas that can be accessed in a moment and can be instantly customized to suit any audience or situation. They become a living encyclopedia of knowledge and expertise.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

Never be afraid to zigzag. Avoid wailing yourself into a category: "I'm a secretary...I'm in the computer business...I'm a Detroiter." You never know which direction your lucky breaks may come from. When they drift into reach, grab them.

For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed

To keep people from the particulars of your life kept you from being seen as one thing or another, and so it was possible you could be thought of as anything, or even as everything.