Quotes About Flexibility

I try to go with the flow, and I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. I feel courageous enough to go outside myself and try something new, like everything in life.

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one.

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Each night, we try something new, play different songs, see what works, what goes down well, mix it up a bit until we find the right mix.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

I've kind of developed an attitude where sometimes you've got to relax and you've got to go with the flow.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

I learned you can't control everything. You've got to roll with the dice sometimes.

You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

There are always new challenges in football. You just need to adapt; otherwise, you won't fit in. And if you don't fit in, then you will have to go somewhere else.

I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that... it may need to be somewhere else. I think that's how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.

In the NBA you are pretty confident but you are one phone call away from being somewhere else; you've just got to be ready for everything.

Me and my son's mother, we've been divorced for a while,but we've been really great parents. We're good friends. We're very relaxed when it comes to our son's time with one another. We have an open door.

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.