Quotes About Adapting

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

I'm enjoying the frenetic pace of this changing world and yet within that hanging on quietly but quite stoically to the same thing I've always done.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.

Around 1950, I quit and went into the appliance business. But even then I was still in show business.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

So I guess the most radical change after marriage is that I shift from my own home in Khar to Samir's place in Seven Bungalows.

The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

I have gained experience over the years, but learning will keep happening in every game.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

As a fighter, from my fighting experience a problem for me was I never too much stick with my game plan.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would - or could - change.

I take what the defense gives me, and I roll with it.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

We are in the era when I go home and have dinner with my kids and put them to bed, and hours later I go to Twitter, and the world has changed.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.