Flexible Approach Quotes

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

I'm part-time vegan. I try to be vegan when I can. But I dip and dive in everywhere.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions about which paths are the best - or sometimes, the least harmful. There are no abstract formulas. Have to think through each case on its own.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

I want to fight the guys that are ranked above me, even though I don't care about rankings because they're just opinions anyway. Even if a guy is below me and wants to fight, I'll take the fight if it makes sense.

The first thing you've got to do in any kind of election campaign is be flexible.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

You can't be rigid in this business [politics].

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

life is a succession of readjustments.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'