Quotes About Flexibility

Flexibility' is the slogan of the day, and when applied to the labour market it augurs an end to the 'job as we know it', announcing instead the advent of work on short-term contracts, rolling contracts or no contracts, positions with no in-built security but with the 'until further notice' clause.

Anche se prendiamo strade diverse, se scopriamo possibilità differenti e torniamo dalla spedizione con esperienze diverse e quindi con soluzioni diverse, non dobbiamo ritenere che nessuna di esse sia inutile a priori, o escluderle in linea di principio solo per il fatto che sono diverse dalla nostra soluzione, inevitabilmente per noi preferibile.

Tenemos opiniones definidas acerca de cómo hacer las cosas y de cómo deberían ser los otros. Estas opiniones carecen de comprensión, porque cuanto más definitivas son las opiniones, tanto más necesario es que no nos distraigamos comprendiendo demasiado a los que queremos cambiar".

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

When I learn new things I change my mind, what do you do?

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

My policy is to have no policy.

compassion, skepticism, and uncertainty rather than on dogma

that people don't speak in theories, that the theories they employ change, flexibly, and of necessity, from moment to moment in conversation, that the notion of limiting conversation to a rigid rule of theoretical constancy is an absurd denial of what conversation is.

You heard my name was Chief Shouting Bear, he said. It doesn't matter. You can call me whatever you want, Stupidlegs.

Can I give her a choice about when to do something, rather than insisting upon "right now." ("Do you want to take your bath before your TV show or right after?")

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken.

A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream. It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds. They replied: You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken. Stoop to conquer.

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

The people may change the constitutions whenever and however they please," explained Wilson. "It is a power paramount to every constitution, inalienable in its nature.

The written Constitution cannot work as intended without something outside of it—America's unwritten Constitution—to fill in its gaps and to stabilize it. In

The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.