Quotes About Adaptability

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

I think I like wildflowers best, " I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow." (Richelle)

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

LIFE isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to DANCE in the rain.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.