Quotes About Flexibility

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.

What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life.

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

Is there smoke in the house? If it's not suffocating, I will stay indoors; if it proves too much, I'll leave. Always remember – the door is open.

No exijas que los acontecimientos sucedan como deseas. Acéptalos tal como son realmente. Así te será posible ser feliz.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.

Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

The smallest attack option would hit the Soviet Union with almost two thousand weapons; the largest with more than three thousand. The vast scale and inflexibility of the SIOP led Kissinger to describe it as a "horror strategy.

to incorporate the materials and processes it has in stock and expects to use in future even if this produces a boot that is not precisely right for the present customer.