Craig Armstrong Quotes

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

I believe I can adapt to anything.

Power shifts your thinking from what is right and wrong to what is necessary

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

You play in different situations and conditions, and you have to come up with new solutions for the problems. It has made me a more rounded player, who can handle different tactics and positions.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

Basketball players can adapt to any situation.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

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 think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.