Quotes About Flexibility

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

There's a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around

Argue like you're right and listen like you're wrong.

Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.

When people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same

Stop asking kids what they want to be when the grow up. They don't have to define themselves in terms of a career. A single identity can close the door to alternatives. Instead of trying to narrow their options, help them to broaden their possibilities. They don't have to be one thing. They can do many things.

A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools, and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.

There are always multiple paths to the same end, and the same starting point can be a path to many different ends. We should be careful to avoid getting too attached to a particular route or even a particular destination. There isn't one definition of success or one track to happiness.

That's the nature of Power today: Change, or be changed. Learn to Thrive in a networked world, or fall.

The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

If anything is clear, it is that a rigid, unchanging way is wrong.

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not nice and easy. I'm not meek and passive.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.