Quotes About Adapting

Build your trails on today, because the path of tomorrow doesn't exist.

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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

We all need strategies for facing unknown repertory.

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.

The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.

Boundaries move with time. It's like being the oldest child. Your parents don't know what to expect, but by the time the little sister comes along, it's like, 'Oh, staying out late with a boy - no big deal.'

It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.

I think that instead of laying out ahead of time where my career is going to go, I try to make decisions that feel like they're the best steps for me in that moment.

A man who falls into a fast-flowing river is wise to swim with the current.

I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.