Alice Roberts Quotes

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I stick by my principles, and one of my principles is flexibility.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I'm kind of a Jack of all trades, master of none.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

Specialization is for insects.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.