Quotes About Flexibility

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

The countries that succeed will be those that are nimble and able to use their human capital to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

I made my way in this league playing special teams and then kind of worked my way into playing receiver. It was always just kind of doing whatever I could do and taking advantage of all the opportunities that I got.

We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.

Every 5, 7, 10 years you have a new fan base. You always have to be re-establishing your fan base. That means you got to have a diverse menu of talents that give you all kinds of things.

With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

There are lots of different ways of playing football. It depends on how tall you are, what position you're in.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

As a result, nature has endowed the human brain with a malleability and flexibility that lets it adapt to the demands of the world it finds itself in. The brain is neither immutable nor static but continuously remodeled by the lives we lead.

I said that every Discipline has its corresponding freedom. What freedom corresponds to submission? It is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get our own way. The obsession to demand that things go the way we want them to go is one of the greatest bondages in human society today.

That's where you're wrong. When a tidal wave washes out the luau, you surf it and look for land.

George Bernard Shaw lo expresó a la perfección: «El hombre sensato se adapta al mundo. El hombre insensato insiste en intentar que el mundo se adapte a él. Por lo tanto, todo el progreso depende de hombres insensatos».

We can change the way that we think about external events, even where we cannot change them. And we can do something more. We can intelligently change our exposure to events that make us either happy or unhappy.

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.