Sylvie Guillem Quotes

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

I'm really open to everything.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?

I'm a chameleon. That's my personality in the band.

I'm open-minded.

As an actor, I do not come with preconceived notions. I am like clay that can be moulded or like a sponge that can absorb things. I do what the director wants me to do.

I'm a Gemini, very spontaneous.

I keep an open mind.

I am used to being a winger, but if a manager wants me to adapt to a new position, then I will have to - and I don't mind.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.

Any player at City is prepared to play anywhere, and I'm no different.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

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.

Never say never - in fashion and life

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Flexibility is the key to stability.