Jason Isbell Quotes

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I get hired because I improvise well.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'

I believe I can adapt to anything.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You have to learn to be fluid and go where you're needed, when you're needed. You've gotta be flexible. I think that's what acting is.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.