Quotes About Flexibility

Nothing characterizes successful organizations more than their willingness to abandon what made them successful.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he?

Depend on it, there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way.

The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

softness overcomes hardness.

How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

Even in a desperate turnaround situation, if you shift your market radically and suddenly, you may lose the market you have before you can get a new one.

You adapt yourself, Paul Klee said, to the contents of the paintbox. Adapting yourself to the contents of the paintbox, he said, is more important than nature and its study. The painter, in other words, does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Measured steps" does not refer to steps that follow a rule or square. A good man, Confucius said, "is not slavish to a path others have trodden." This man is not even slavish to the path he himself has trodden, for experience would teach him that every occasion is different: the circumstances change, and they change even as the occasion unfolds. Thus, each time, he has to size up the situation and decide how to make his next move. He marks the line.

Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: 1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, 2) You are willing to take massive action, 3) You notice what's working or not, and 4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The path to success consists of knowing your outcome, taking action, knowing what results you're getting, and having the flexibility to change until you're successful.

is essentially a private "closed-door" fund for only high-net-worth investors. The managers can have total flexibility to bet "for" the market and make money when it goes up, or "against" the market, and make money when it goes down.)

Bir parçalar? yerine koyma bulmacas?n? çözemiyorsan?z; tekrar tekrar ayn? çözümü deneyerek bir yere ulaÅŸamazs?n?z. DeÄŸiÅŸmek, adapte olmak, denemek ve yeni bir ÅŸeyler yapmak için esnek olursan?z, çözersiniz. Ne kadar esnek olursan?z, o kadar seçenek yarat?rs?n?z, o kadar çok kap? açabilirsiniz ve daha çok baÅŸar?l? olursunuz. -S?n?rs?z Güç

La verdad es que no hay nada que no pueda usted conseguir si: 1) decide claramente qué es lo que quiere comprometerse a alcanzar; 2) está dispuesto a emprender una acción a gran escala; 3) observa lo que funciona y lo que no, y 4) continúa cambiando su aproximación al tema hasta lograr lo que desea, usando todo aquello que la vida le ofrezca a lo largo del camino.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything...

There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.

Each must give way to the other if there is to be any happiness.