Quotes About Flexibility

For me, the focus will always be to show my versatility. And sometimes you need to spoon-feed people to show them what you are capable of.

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.

Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.

but he still wasn't sure how to respond to the English obsession with the weather.

No escape plan can ever be foolproof,' interjected the brigadier. 'In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.

The less you get attached to your preferences, the less they will become your source of stress.

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expecting to find good twenty-first-century economic answers in a constitution that dates back to 1789 is unrealistic. The Founding Fathers were clever, to be sure, but the cleverest thing they realized is that Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism that "the earth belongs to the living" means laws from a premodern age should not blindly bind us today.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

There are always alternative interpretations of the same data. It is often the case, however, that the alternatives that are rejected are treated as if they don't exist. But they do. And we should be aware not only of their existence and potential viability, but of the possibility that the hypotheses that we might embrace so strongly today may very well be the rejects of tomorrow.

Expected surprises.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

I always say, Don't make plans, make options.

You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, 'You've got lemons? Let's make lemonade.

Arvid says, "Darling, you must never become accustomed to the extraordinary and outrageous. If you do, little by little, you'll learn to accept anything.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

Husbands and houses are negotiable, she said, And as for a plan... we'll figure it out.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.