Quotes About Flexibility

I am, I thought, capable of holding a hundred different points of view on any one idea at any one time. There is no real me.

I want today to give up being so smugly sure about what tomorrow won't need.

if other institutions try to use it, they

Let's put aside the goal of doing it perfectly, and replace it with the trust that we can do it differently.

Tune out the outside advice or criticism that doesn't fit with your parenting style. There are no absolute rules about raising children and no guarantees for any parenting techniques.

The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

This meant various things, but two stand out. First, obviously, was that a church or a temple should look like a church or a temple, a house like a house, and not vice versa. But the Adam brothers would also assert that an architectural style must be flexible enough to compose and decorate any type of building. Therefore any building could be made to be beautiful, not only a town house or a commercial building, but even a warehouse—or a factory.

Dingen kunnen nog zo rotsvast zitten, zolang je zelf maar blijft bewegen kun je ze altijd weer veranderen. Eén stap opzij, een stapje van niks is genoeg en heel de wereld oogt anders. Een mens moet in het leven zijn eigen coulissen verplaatsen.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

Your mind should be like a room with many open windows," Bapuji told me. "Let the breeze flow in from all, but refuse to be blown away by any one.

You want to have faith. But you also want to reserve the right to challenge your own faith when it suits you.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

If you cant go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

Para os profissionais liberais, executivos e trabalhadores das empresas, a frase Se você não mudar, morrerá quer dizer que, se não pensarem pela empresa e se reciclarem, serão ultrapassados, perderão sua competência. Se não abrirem as janelas de sua mente para prevenir erros e fazer além do que lhes é exigido, sufocarão o brilho de sua inteligência, deixarão de ser úteis.

You have to deal with the world as it is and not as you want it to be

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.