Quotes About Flexibility

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

My job is to make sure that as our customers' priorities change, as the environment changes, we shift that portfolio of products to meet them.

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.

We will not only be more flexible when it comes to price, we'll also be more efficient operationally by forgoing pre-assigned seating, priority boarding, upgrading the option for last-minute changes.

Why will I leave TV? For me, work is priority. The medium might change, but I, as an actor, don't.

You can't always find a hotel with a crib. That's my first priority.

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.