Mark Walport Quotes

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

I need eclectic people in my life.

I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.

Everybody's got a lot to their personalities. You're not just one element. There are some days you want something that can be a bit stricter or a bit more disciplined or something a bit more floaty and a bit freer.

The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.

I like to be in different roles.

Don't become too attached to your own myopia. Just because you've found a way to do things doesn't mean it's the way to do things. There are so many different ways in which to navigate this so-called life. Be open to experiencing more than one.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.