Quotes About Versatility

Daily Law: Expand your knowledge to related fields. Pick an auxiliary skill and start practicing.

You do not hold on to past ways of doing things, because that will ensure you will fall behind and suffer for it. You are flexible and always looking to adapt.

Like Roach, you don't want to abandon the skills and experience you have gained, but to find a new way to apply them.

The key to success in any field is first developing skills in various areas, which you can later combine in unique and creative ways.

grasping at Option A as the single right answer, true strategy is positioning yourself to be able to do A, B, or C depending

My policy is to have no policy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1809–1865

Por esto, cuando he conseguido una victoria, no vuelvo a emplear la misma táctica otra vez, sino que, respondiendo a las circunstancias, varío mis métodos hasta el infinito. —Sun-tzu (siglo IV a.C.).

Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.

Know a little about a lot.

Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.

Unless a person is used to changing, it's hard to change.

He never understood that the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

Learning skills outside what you think of as your profession will benefit you.

You want to know a little about a lot" was

He wanted us to know a little about every aspect of his empire.

That Anne-girl improves all the time," she said. "I get tired of other girls—there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them. Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits," Augustus said. "And getting drunk on the porch. I've probably slipped a little on the biscuits in the last few days, and I've lost the porch, but I can still talk with the best of them.

SEALs, like the name said, were trained to operate in all conditions - SEa, Air, Land. But Stuffy Victorian Hotel Lobby hadn't made the list.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.