Quotes About Flexibility

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.