Quotes About Flexibility

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

You can be in Shanghai on a Thursday, London on Friday, and in bed at home by Friday night.

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

I am one of those people who go with the flow, and thus, I have no goal in life.

'Piper's Pit' was totally unscripted - everything just happened - thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

I missed a connecting flight once and the girlfriend I was with started to cry. And I was like 'Look, just chill. We've got an open ticket. This really isn't a big deal.'

There should be a flexibility on ticket prices in multiplexes.

When I'm working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it's a thrill to be just working as an actor.

I never buy plane tickets out of a country until I'm in the country, so I get on the ground, figure out what I need, where I'm going, how much time I need, and schedule as I go along.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

I don't want to tie myself into one area or the other. I think its important not to rely heavily on either TV or stand-up, but to let them work off of each other.

If I wanted to learn Arabic or Russian, I could. Or tie my shoes in a new way, I could. Why? Dedication.

I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.

I don't think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.

One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back.

There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.