F. Murray Abraham Quotes

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

There's always some room for improvisation.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

Sometimes you get in life something you don't like... you have to do something different.

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.