Quotes About Flexibility

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

I think the Republican party should be a broad party.

I'm used to doing a lot of live broadcasting.

When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there before, so I was getting used to that role as a first-team player.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

You never have to change a book for budget.

When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

My job is to create a business model that's built on a platform that has the ability to change quickly.

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

Changing an opponent shouldn't be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it's boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.