Sam Mendes Quotes

We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two generations after us to live like that. It is impossible.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.