Quotes About Flexibility

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

If I'm not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I'm comfortable doing that now.

When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and what you've heard.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

My wife, Lauren, is a remarkably good sport and one of the most adaptable personalities I've ever met.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

If I want to be remembered, I want to be known as a good actor. As times change, we, as actors, need to adapt with it.

I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one.

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She'd pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.