Quotes About Flexibility

The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible. In

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to—how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

But you wouldn't be doing me; I don't bottom to anyone,' Nicky said. 'That works for me,' Dev said. I was no longer certain we were joking. Nicky grinned. 'If I come across for you then I'll have to fight off Jean-Claude and Asher. I think I'll stay on this side of the heteroflexible divide; it'll make things less complicated.

Total consistency is an appalling virtue.

Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

You opened a debate. You can't close if just because it is not going your way. -David Petrakis

A plan began forming in my mind, but I quickly shushed the thought. I didn't have time to dream or plan. I would deal with each hour as it came, one step at a time.

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Given any rule, however ?fundamental? or ?necessary? for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.