Quotes About Flexibility

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Constancy is nothing but a languishing and wavering dance

The second mistake is the tacit assumption that first you go to school, and when you are done, you go get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills changed on a generational timescale, but it does not in today's fast-moving labor markets. These two phases of life need to be strongly interleaved, or at least the opportunity for new skill acquisition must be explicit and omnipresent.

My big takeaway was that you lace up your skates, you put on your helmet and you get on the ice knowing all the rules. If you get blindsided, that's just part of it; if your teammate doesn't pass to you and takes the shot himself, that's the game, and if you lose 4–0, that's the game too. You just go out there and do your best with what you've got.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

You change with the guys you date.

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

Though there is no fixed human nature, we cannot regard human nature as being infinitely malleable and able to adapt itself to any kind of conditions without developing a psychological dynamism of its own

It makes very little difference where one lives, Kate. Some places are more comfortable than others, but it is never important. The only important thing is what one makes of it.

Sometimes you're on top and things are easy. Sometimes you're on the bottom. There's no need to let it worry you.

flexibility of the self was the achievement of a rare maturity

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

Quem me dera uma pedra para a faca, continuou, depois de ter verificado a amarração ao remo. Eu devia ter trazido uma pedra. Devias ter trazido muitas coisas. Mas não as trouxeste, meu velho. E agora já não é ocasião de pensar no que não tens. Pensa no que podes fazer com o que há.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The warrior is like a river, with fluid and adaptive moves. The warrior is not rigid or unchanging. The warrior is not like a stone that cannot be broken but like water that even when cut in two cannot be divided. It is not a weapon that makes you a warrior—it is your wisdom.

No plan survives contact with the enemy

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent

what is true for human beings is true for every living thing: all organisms require alternating periods of growth and equilibrium. Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies.

You need two things in a marriage," she told me. "You need the will to make it work and you need to be able to make compromises. It's not hard to be right, but then you are right and alone.