Quotes About Flexibility

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

If I have to play 5, I'll play 5. That's what we've been doing for years in the Spanish team.

My game pretty much speaks for itself - a guy who can play multiple positions... attack in different situations.

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

I don't need players who won't track back, and I'm certainly not keen on specialists.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.