Quotes About Flexibility

Non possiamo risolvere i problemi con lo stesso tipo di pensiero che abbiamo usato quando li abbiamo creati.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

if the facts don't fit the theory change the facts

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

Thanks to language and culture, human behavior can be incomparably more intelligent, more original, creative and flexible than the behavior of animals, whose brains are too small to accommodate the number of neurons necessary for the invention of language and the transmission of accumulated knowledge. But, thanks again to language and culture, human beings often with a stupidity, a lack of realism, a total inappropriateness, of which animals are incapable.

As long as we try to fit facts to theories instead of adopting the scientific attitude of altering the theories (when necessary) to fit the facts, we shall remain mired in falsehood.

We have seen that it is presumptuous and impractical to lay down definite rules as to what we are to do. What does concern us is so to arrange matters that we are free to do anything that may become necessary or expedient, allowing for that development of supernormal powers which enables us to carry out our plans as they form in the mutable bioscope of events.

You can't go through life saying "I hate mustard" because that is shutting off the possibility of change.

Problems have a way of solving themselves.

Life's goalposts, and hurdles too, are never in the right place, she told herself; and they have the unfortunate habit of shifting within seconds. One sees them, and then suddenly they are no longer there, where they should be, but somewhere altogether elsewhere.

It was far better to accept what had happened and make the best of it. It was also the case, he reflected, that Mma Ramotswe usually got her way. She was so nice about it, so disinclined to be insistent or pushy, but she usually got him to do what she wanted—and he was happy enough about that when all was said and done.

they would just have to make the best of the situation. When there were things that you could not change, then there was a strong case for accepting things as they were and working from there.

The people who exhaust themselves are the ones who run around the base of the mountain shrieking that theirs is the only real, proper way to the top.

did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.