Quotes About Flexibility

I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.

I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.

I can run up and down, shoot threes, or go inside. I can also get involved by setting screens and rebounding.

Anyone that plays knows football is up and down. As much as you want to, you can't control everything. You take what positives you can.

I've been up and down the order. I'm just happy to get a game and wherever I'm told to bat or told to bowl I'll do it.

I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence - i.e adapt to feedback.

As long as I can help the team achieve its objective, then I am happy playing anywhere upfront.

I can play on the right, from the left, behind the main striker, or upfront - it depends on where the coach wants me to play.

I am happy to bowl wherever my captain wants me to bowl. If he tells me to bowl upfront and be aggressive with the new ball, I am happy to do that.

Times are changing fast and we, as actors, need to upgrade our armoury every now and then.

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.

I go to the gym four days a week, and focus on my upper body and lower body on alternate days. I also do a lot of free style exercises such as stretching and squatting.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

Things are always changing, and you have to be, you just have to, I guess, kind of learn to deal with the ups and downs.

I can handle ups and downs.

I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.