Linus Torvalds Quotes

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up somewhere completely different five years from now, something completely removed from acting - I could be perfectly content studying photography or English literature. At the same time, I love what I'm doing right now and could see doing this for a very long time.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

I think I have terminal curiosity. So I always think that the future will be better and different than the past. As I look back and take inventory of myself, I'm very open-minded and flexible. People say the older you get, you get set in your ways. I don't think so.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I have a loose blueprint of where I want the show to go. I stress, quite frankly to remind myself, that I hold onto that vision very loosely, so that I can be moving towards something, but I don't ever want to feel like I'm in a box that'll stop me from exploring a potential new direction.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

Let us try for once not to be right.