John Milius Quotes

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

If I forgot to put something on, and I have to wear a trash bag, I'm just like, 'I'm gonna rock a trash bag today.'

I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

Cristiano is an unbalancing player. His confidence allows him to pull off the plays he does. He naturally always looks for the best solution.

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

That's the thing, I've got so many ways to go, even striking there's so many ways to go. I proved that.

I feel no matter who I'm going against that I can get open in a number of ways.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.