Quotes About Flexibility

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success

One must take the world as one finds it.

Cuando se vive con locos, es preciso también aprender a ser insensato.

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the movements of the social body; but this party extends over the whole community, and it penetrates into all classes of society; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but it finally fashions it to suit its purposes.

They were prepared for everything except what actually happened.

the great advantage of the Americans consists in their being able to commit faults which they may afterward repair.

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.

My father had told me that no matter how comfortable we might feel, we must live like fish, unattached to any land. Wherever there was water, we would survive. Some fish could stay in the mud for months, even years, and when at last there was a high flooding tide, they would swim away, a dark flash, remembered only by their own kind. So perhaps the stories they told of our people were true: no net could hold us.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

The things that go wrong are rarely the things you,ve thought to worry about.

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.

If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

Visconti, like most arrangers, was not used to his orchestration ideas being preempted, or dictated to him as if he were simply an assistant, hired to notate someone else's musical lines. But there was some flexibility within McCartney's instructions. "Some ideas he wanted me to strictly adhere to, and some were just sketches that I was asked to improve upon.

Ça ne fait rien"4 (or "It does not matter," more loosely translated as "Don't worry, we'll sort it"). Paul and Linda heard Richards's comment as "San Ferry Anne," a phrase they adopted to mean "don't worry," and true to form, McCartney began toying with the phrase as the title for a new song.

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs.

Os analfabetos do futuro não serão os que não sabem ler ou escrever, mas os que não sabem aprender, desaprender e reaprender.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

If the worst comes to pass, these can be … discarded.

In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time are malleable, and everything is seen through a haze of probabilities, rather than with certainty.