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Quotes About Flexibility

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.
~ John D. MacDonald
It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.
~ John David Ashcroft
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
~ John Dewey
New inventions, new machines, new methods of transportation and intercourse are making over the whole scene of action year by year. It is an absolute impossibility to educate the child for any fixed station in life.
~ John Dewey
If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.
~ John Dewey
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
~ Chris Klein
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
~ Denzel Washington
Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.
~ Giorgio Armani
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.
~ Henry James
My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.
~ Lee Hammond
Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.
~ Liane Moriarty
I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.
~ Melanie Chisholm
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
~ Paul Prudhomme
We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.
~ Paulo Coelho
Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.
~ Rhea Seehorn
Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.
~ Rob Wittman
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.
~ Robert Breault
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
~ Anthony de Mello
It is never too late in life to practice yoga
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
~ Bill Bryson
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
~ Christian Marclay
We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.
~ Christopher McDougall
I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.
~ Dave Smalley