Quotes About Flexibility

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

It is the same for your life. Be flexible and explore different behaviors and strategies to unlock what you truly want in life or who you are destined to be. At

An open mind is not an empty one.

Reason and be open to reason; yield to principle, not pressure.

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

try if you can to not stay in the small box of old thinking.

vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests

vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal—not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, that allows us to grow. —MARY CATHERINE BATESON, PERIPHERAL VISIONS

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry." —PAUL THEROUX, QUOTING TONY THE BEACHCOMBER, IN THE HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA    In this way, vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal—not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

Adivasi societies are not fossilized societies.

Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.

Agile is simple—it just isn't easy.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

The dogmas of the quiet past,76 are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new,77 so we must think anew, and act anew.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships.

In a packed program tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

There is no such thing as bad weather," he used to say, "only inappropriate clothing.

Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so g—damn seriously.'" "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?" "There aren't any.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

Rigidity of thought is a trap too many of us fall into. . . .