Quotes About Flexibility

Once upon a time I had my life planned out...

Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.

Forced change is not true change;

Control what you can, but flow with what you can't.

Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.

When the creators of software-based products examine their handiwork, they overlook how bad it is. Instead, they see its awesome power and flexibility. They see how rich the product is in features and functions. They ignore how excruciatingly difficult it is to use, how many mind-numbing hours it takes to learn, or how it diminishes and degrades the people

Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.

A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt …!

At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

Nothing meant anything that couldn't be turned instantly into its opposite by any competent spin-doctor or spoon-bender. History and language had become so flexible, wrenched back and forth to suit each new agenda, that it seemed as if they might just simply snap in half and leave us floundering in a sea of mad Creationist revisions and greengrocers' punctuation.

If things were no longer going on the way they should be, didn't that mean anything could happen?

Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight." "Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.

always stay balanced—neither too tight nor too loose—like the bow.

No lesson is permanent. Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

Rules always change in times of war and in times of peace, as they do in times of fortune and misfortune.

Anything goes as one fends for oneself.

Life is not all about rainbows, not all about butterflies and happiness, so you should know how to shower when the rain comes.

Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don't value punctuality as highly as the Swiss, Germans or North Americans and have a pretty flexible idea of what's considered "on time.

There's nothing wrong with Plan B.Play it right, and no one will even know it wasn't your first choice.

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.

We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do?

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.