Quotes About Flexibility

Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives, and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.

To stay relevant—not just economically but above all socially—you will need the ability to constantly learn and to reinvent yourself, certainly at a young age like fifty.

As strangeness becomes the new normal, your past experiences, as well as the past experiences of the whole of humanity, will become less reliable guides.

Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the 21st century

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

other words, while the behaviour patterns of archaic humans remained fixed for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens could transform their social structures, the nature of their interpersonal relations, their economic activities and a host of other behaviours within a decade or two.

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The

Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.

ever since the Cognitive Revolution Homo sapiens has been able to revise its behaviour rapidly in accordance with changing needs.

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always tempting to ask, "what do Pagans believe?" but a better question is "what do Pagans do?

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

You must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.

Life is nothing but changes. Don't resist changes, but be the vanguard of it.

a good diet can repair the switches, making them flexible to circumstances so that they switch on or off as needed to keep our health in balance.

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.