Quotes About Flexibility

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

Writers can live everywhere. It's our superpower.

Das Gebildete wird sogleich wieder ungebildet, und wir haben uns, wenn wir einigermaßen zum lebendigen Anschaun der Natur gelangen wollen, selbst so beweglich und bildsam zu erhalten, nach dem Beispiele mit dem sie uns vorgeht.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." —George Bernard Shaw

There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]

The musher's motto has always been Drive the dogs you have, not the dogs someone else has.

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.

Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. Better to go with the flow.

When you're facing in the wrong direction, progress means walking backward.

When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult, and time-consuming.

Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain, because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better evidence or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use but is also in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world. It

My final two cents worth of advice is to develop an all-consuming curiosity for things both exotic and ordinary. Read, observe, analyze, and become involved with a variety of interests. Study, practice, delve, probe, investigate, and above all, be flexible. Keep an open mind. The world is changing fast. Don't get caught in the corner of the ring. - Ward Kimball

I simply will never stop learning because I don´t want to tie myself just to one way of making a living.

For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages—when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in force—that we are visited with the notion that time is malleable, that the future is up for shaping, that nothing is fixed: then we are brushed by that wing, and it is the only call we will get.