Chris Hughton Quotes

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.