Quotes About Adapting

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I remembered what it was like: the weirdness, being the odd man out, trying to make my way around campus, and trying to figure out who my friends would be, who to steer clear of. I wrote it all down in a fanciful way - the feelings of alienation, the feelings of uncertainty, of being away from home for the first time.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

I was pregnant and nursing most of the years I was at 24 Sussex. I was ill-prepared and hardly even knew my husband, let alone how I was supposed to fit into this world that was very alien to me.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

I have vaguely entertained the idea of learning how to use the Internet and email. It looks easy, but I'm sure it's harder than it seems. Never having used a computer makes a big difference. I haven't a clue which keys to press.

I'm really bad with dates and never know what I'm doing from one day to the next.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes.

I wasn't a natural defender. I was a striker as a kid. I have learned a lot but there is more to learn, of course.

Whatever the script demands, I do.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.