Quotes About Flexibility

Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em

Principles are like clothes,' said Vick, straightening her jacket. 'You have to change them to suit the audience.

Absolutes are never to be trusted.

A man has to bend with the breeze.' The Great Wolf's grin was wider than ever. 'You're a bastard, Clover. But you're my kind of bastard.' Stour's kind of bastard. That was where all his cleverness had got him.

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke

If men can change like that.' And Monza snapped her fingers in his face. 'That's the only way they do change, ain't it?' His one eye stayed on her. 'If things change enough around 'em? Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

But laws did not appear at all the rigid pillars they once had. If the Great Change had proved anything, it was that—with enough force, with enough fear—one could bend them into whatever knots one pleased.

Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

Northmen kept him close. He liked to think he was looked on as some noble mixture of bodyguard, advisor and mentor. In truth, the role probably tended more towards jester. But what can you do but play the role you're given?

You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

A foundation of values surrounded by those flexible rings of changeable tactics is the strongest basis for stability in business today. You can most successfully change what you're doing and how you do it if you have a clear sense of who you are.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it's the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

Ya cruzaremos ese puente cuando lleguemos a él

The Solid Ground We Stand On … Isn't

Reality can be a bit of a moving target—literally.

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.

People have pretty rubbery brains. They can take quite a bit of bouncing around. Come on. Band-Aids and tea. And answers. They're all right this way.

But Reich would eventually arrive at a more nuanced conclusion: "Bill Clinton operated by sonar. He emits a huge number of policies, ideas, and initiatives and he sees what kind if response he gets. And where he sees an opportunity to move, he moves.

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.