Bill James Quotes

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Our only security is our ability to change.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.

If I have to be 'the experimental guy' or whatever, then I'll roll with it.

The simple rule I will follow to sustain in the industry would be to adapt to these ongoing changes and be a versatile artiste.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

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

I am rooted, but I flow.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.