Quotes About Flexibility

I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed. However, you adjust; you get used to the little things and hope for the best.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.

Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.

The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

government needs more flexibility to identify talent and recruit effectively for the workers with the skills it needs; it needs a pay and benefits system that is competitive with private markets; it needs a talent management system that rewards top performers and deals with poor performers, including increasing flexibility in firing those whose work is substandard. And

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.