Quotes About Flexibility

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue if the race changes for a character.

What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.

An actor has to continuously reinvent himself. So my plea to all directors and scriptwriters is please look at me out of the box.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

In order for us to be successful... we have to be able to and be open-minded enough to reinvent ourselves every six months.

What's so great about this industry is that you have to be able to reinvent yourself every day.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

I don't believe in ideology in international relations.

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

Change is the only constant. We all change as per time and relationship also changes and you need to adapt. You need to grow together.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Freedom is relative.

Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.

Everything is relative and you have to learn that sometimes you win and other times you lose.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.

I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.

I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.

I'm pretty relaxed as a parent, and I think that people might be surprised by that.