Quotes About Flexibility

As with the terms "physics" and "science," so too with terms like "cosmology" and "psychology," the wisest policy is, in my view, not to quibble about contemporary usage but rather to use the best modern labels, qualify them as one sees fit, and then to get on with matters of substance.

The Star Trek conception is a bottle, and into that bottle you can pour different vintages, but you're not allowed to change the shape of the bottle.

Modularity permits the efficient discrimination of context.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

chose young smart people just out of university because they were not set in their ways from previous jobs. Better to teach a young athlete who comes fresh to his sport than to retrain one who has learned bad form.

Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection provides.

phenotypic plasticity

Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances.

Also, human groups are formed of highly flexible alliances, not just among family members but between families, genders, classes, and tribes. The bonding is based on cooperation among individuals or groups who know one another and are capable of distributing ownership and status on a personal basis.

Los seres humanos y sus órdenes sociales son intrínsecamente imperfectos, por suerte. En un mundo en constante cambio, necesitamos la flexibilidad que solo la imperfección proporciona.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

As the developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik and her colleagues have observed, general intelligence, behavioral flexibility, ability to solve novel problems, and a reliance on learning from others tends to roughly correlate with an extended period of helpless immaturity.13 This relationship is found across a broad range of animals, including birds and mammals, suggesting that it tracks a fundamental evolutionary trade-off between narrow competence and creative flexibility.

In fact, one of Gopnik's most important arguments is that this cognitive flexibility and creativity is a design feature of youth. She and her colleagues review evidence that suggests that when it comes to novel learning tasks, the young of many species often outperform their elders.20 This is certainly true of humans.

Carefully laid plans will miscarry because the unexpected and even the unexpectable will happen.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.

For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.

One cannot stop such ones, who habitually split the hair; however, above that, some other adventurers even strike to create the hole in the hair. Just smile at that than showing seriousness.

What is the right way today; it may be wrong tomorrow; thus, avail and enjoy the right way of today than waiting, for tomorrow.

In a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

Identity, he believed, wad fluid not fixed.

We make it especially hard for others to observe our trait because we are so responsive to our environments that we can be something like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in. I