Quotes About Flexibility

I'm a very light packer. I don't like checking in luggage. I only like hand luggage.

My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I'm handed, I'm gonna make the most of it. If it's good for me, I'm gonna take it.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Thank you," said Lirael. "I am glad you didn't leave us out in the cold, despite rule thirty-four." "Rule thirty-six," corrected Mirelle, straight-faced as ever.

When you're through changing, you're through." Bruce Barton

although life happens and tragedies ensue, love has the ability to adapt. Somehow love is flexible and strong enough to step up to the challenges it faces. When we encounter distressing situations, love has a deep reservoir we may not see but we can still draw from.

Our response to change consists of emotions, attitudes, and actions.

Life is full of unanticipated changes. Our only choice as couples is in how we will respond.

We know intellectually that we will eventually have differences. But we are certain that we will discuss those differences openly; one of us will always be willing to make concessions, and we will reach agreement.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

the most important question for any organization is this: Are we changing as fast as the world around us? For most organizations, the answer is no.

What's needed are radically new organizational models that downplay formal structure. In a world of relentless change, trade-offs need to be made as close to the front lines as possible. Boundaries must be malleable. Resources, rather than being hoarded, must flow unhindered toward promising opportunities. Interunit coordination must be the product of nimble, self-organizing communities and market-like transactions rather than blanket policies or cumbersome councils.

We can't educate today's students for tomorrow's challenges with yesterday's schools.

why would we want to freeze the system and disable our students by getting them perfectly ready for yesterday, when we know they will have to move headlong into a very different tomorrow? Every one of those students needs to be ready for life outside the trenches.

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.

A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.

Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come.

You must realize that these are abnormal times and there's no way that any of us can keep ourselves pure

Il semble que dans le monde intermédiaire où se mêlent rêverie et réalité, il se réalise une plasticité de l'homme et de son monde sans qu'on ait jamais besoin de savoir où est le principe de cette double malléabilité

Uno se acostumbra a todo cuando se quiere… cuando se tiene buena voluntad…