Quotes About Flexibility

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.

Think of the rotten time Alice would have had in Wonderland if she hadn't been broad-minded. Take it as it comes.

y que no se acaba el mundo porque una cosa no salga del todo bien, y que ya habría otras oportunidades de demostrar mi cordura y que, si no las había, yo sabría buscármelas.

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.

They won't break me. I've got a nimble and pliant will, and the powers of a chameleon. I'll conform for a year, or two years if necessary, and when I get out I'll be a wiser man. Maybe a sadder man. Possibly bitter, too—I hope not.

One of the challenges of life is to be open-minded about new ideas and new possibilities.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

And I once heard Mr. William Hunt, who is one of the first artists, say to a class of teachers, "I shall not try to adapt myself to your various lines of teaching. I will tell you the best things I know, and you may make the adaptations.

Access–your flexible friend.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

When the horse is dead, get off.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.

Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not

Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes.

And this is law, I will maintain,Unto my dying day, sir,That whatsoever king shall reign,I'll still be the Vicar of Bray, sir!

Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

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