Quotes About Flexibility

you need to develop a higher tolerance for disorder. Now, you should still not accept disorder. In fact, you should do your best to drive what's around you to order.

replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise

Authenticity is fluid. Today's innovation is tomorrow's authenticity.

The changeability of the world is, as it happens, the only thesis in this treatise you can agree with.

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defender against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything. We've got to accept the facts, elf. That's what we've got to learn.

Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

However, for programmers, combining rich, flexible human thought with the rigid constraints of a digital computer exposes the power and the deepest flaws of both.

One of our pastors, John Hambrick, has a saying that we've adopted organization-wide. He says, "We walk toward the messes." In other words, we don't feel compelled to sort everything or everyone out ahead of time. We are not going to spend countless hours creating policies for every eventuality.

They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.

Making a change requires you to be willing, able, and ready.

Feeling willing is the first step. Recognizing that something should change shows a willingness and openness to doing things differently.

Soy elástica, ya lo sabes, y no soy persona que se entregue pasivamente a la tristeza. Necesito tantísimo la alegría y nunca me cierro a ella...

If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want.

It must be wonderful to have your way carved out for you. [...] To have a pathway ready hewed through the mountains, and follow it happily masticating in your nosebag - blinkers on the trail. And all the awesome pomp. The sweet-smelly smoke, and those nose-picking plebeian acolytes toddling round with watering-cans tinkling little bells. Then the doctrine of happy accommodation - flexible as any bulrush when the emotional gales of March are blowing. Ah, blessed idiosyncratic interpretation!

I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

Compromise - Lowering my standards. So you can meet them.