Quotes About Flexibility

I am made all things to all men.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

l'adaptabilité est le secret de la survie. Selon Charles Darwin, ni le plus fort ni le plus intelligent mais seulement les espèces les plus adaptables gagne à la fin. Alors faites de votre mieux pour être le plus adaptable, dans votre vie personnelle autant que dans les relations professionnelles. Qui est le secret de la survie et de succès!" - Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate.

What is the point in having a mind unless you can change it?

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I'm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

The key to success is often the ability to adapt.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

The moment you say so-and-so is wise or is cruel or defensive or loving or whatever, you have hardened your perception and become prejudiced and ceased to perceive this person moment by moment, somewhat like a pilot who operates today with last week's weather report.

Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever-moving stream of life.

You remembers, boy," he says, "there is no bad weathers, only bad clothes.

Recuérdate, hijo —dice—, no hay clima malo, solo ropa mala.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

Romans tended to fight sea battles as if they were on land.

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.