Jessica Tandy Quotes

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

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

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

I need to be creative all the time.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.