Quotes About Flexibility

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

Treat your life like a game.

Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

To move freely you must be deeply rooted.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.