Quotes About Flexibility

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences.

We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know.

We have multiple dichotomies in our heads, and ones that seem inevitable and crucial can, under the right circumstances, have their importance evaporate in an instant.

The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do

You just make it up as you go along.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn.

Only fools expect everything to go the way they want. Expecting

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If

Las oportunidades van y vienen, y ser capaz de tomar decisiones es una habilidad fundamental.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

Smart investors don't time the markets. If they miss a wave, they search for the next one and get themselves in position.

This quote from futurist Alvin Toffler mirrors what rich dad told me two decades ago: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Unless a person is used to changing, it's hard to change.

in a flat market that is moving sideways.

Just as experienced surfers learn not to fight the waves or currents, sophisticated investors go with the trends, changing strategies when appropriate, or standing on the sideline if things are too choppy.

Surfers learn to respect the change in the power of the waves and water with each change of season.