Quotes About Flexibility

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

If I need to be, like, a guy that scores a lot, I'm willing to do that.

I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

Sometimes you fail with the bat, and then you have to do well with the ball. When you fail with the ball, you have to do well with your willow.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.