Quotes About Flexibility

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.… We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. He

One plays by the conventions of politics in order to be in power when the hour calls for unconventional decisions.

It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.

People that worry about where they think they're going next generally don't end up where they think they're going. I just worry about what I'm doing now and try to make it good. When you've got too much of a master plan, it's going to fail.

Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, scum it well, and it will give the soup a high French taste.

no esperar de nosotros ni de nuestras parejas ser los mismos, sino aceptar la sorpresa de quién es el otro que tengo al lado hoy, y sorprendernos a nosotros mismos siendo otros todo el tiempo.

Cuando se encuentre en un callejón sin salida, no sea idiota, salga por donde entró.

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.

One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.

Feliz el que no insiste en tener razón, porque nadie la tiene o todos la tienen.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it.

Almost is such a wonderful word, don't you think?" said the shopkeeper with a wink. "So full of wiggle rom and loopholes, so not absolutely anything.

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

Don't worry about things you can't change.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.