Quotes About Flexibility

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

Finn and Emma are like rubber balls, he thought. The harder you knock them down, the faster they bounce back up.

It was an old kender proverb—Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.

Puedo convertirme en lo que quieran que sea. Y creerlo. Creer, además, que soy encantadora. En cuanto lo creo, se convierte en realidad para quienes me ven y desean que sea de una manera acorde con sus gustos, también lo sé.

Ho amato quella lingua per la sua flessibilità di corpo allenato, la ricchezza del vocabolario nel quale a ogni parola si afferma il contatto diretto e vario della realtà, l'ho amata perché quasi tutto quel che gli uomini han detto di meglio è stato detto in greco.

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.

To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.

Young people? Wherever did they get the notion that life operated in such absolutes?

when we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.

I understood—I thought I understood—then things changed, or I learned the next thing that made everything I knew before obsolete.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.

Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

Tolerance of ambiguity is a necessary condition for creativity.

Als je in Parijs wilt blijven, mijn huis is jouw huis,' zei ik heel serieus. 'En als je nog een keer wilt trouwen, dan trouwen we. Mij maakt het geen bal uit of je nu bigamiste of trigamiste bent.

Moe was a triple threat." "He could sing, dance, and act?" She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.

He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.