Quotes About Flexibility

Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

I can never say no - I hate saying no to anything - so whenever my agent rings up and says, 'I've got a new job for you' or my publicist says, 'you've got to be here on this day,' I'm always like, 'yay, ok, great!'

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

I roll with the punches.

I don't dream. I'm not a person who makes a list of things that need to happen in my life. It just evolves, and you roll with the punches.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I just roll with the punches.