Quotes About Flexibility

Our minds become more supple as we develop ourselves on the meditation seat. Each time we acknowledge a fantasy or thought, we're softening up our mind by becoming less bound to concepts and emotions. Following the technique fosters curiosity instead of dullness, appreciation instead of disheartenment, and imagination instead of limitation.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.

Believe nothing. Try everything.

Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.

By working in and among and between world-class teams, I could combine different methodologies for new combinations. I didn't have to adhere to a fixed set of rules, and handpicked the best of each.

Play the tennis that is in front of you, not the tennis you played yesterday or the tennis you hope to play tomorrow.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

To get along, go along.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously described the importance of being able "to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time," while still retaining "the ability to function." I was quickly becoming practiced at this discomfiting balance.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy—very unhappy—it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

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Loving someone... I mean really loving someone... means you are willing to admit the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.

Come up with the game plan while you're in the midst of the action.

Disappointments are just changed appointments.

Volgens mij heeft een mens twee opties. - Namelijk? Of je aanvaardt de dingen zoals ze zijn. En door dat te doen, door je oprecht bij een situatie neer te leggen, ben je niet langer ongelukkig. Of je probeert de bestaande situatie te veranderen.

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