Quotes About Flexibility

They don't do much good; — do they? It's better to take people as you find 'em, and then make the best of 'em. They're a queer lot; — ain't they, — the sort of people one meets about in the world?

Anything is constitutional, or anything is unconstitutional, just as you choose to look at it.

if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things-

Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen sind wandlungsfähig, die anderen stark erregbar.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), nearly 60 percent of employers offer some kind of flexible work arrangements—and nearly half of those companies make those arrangements available to a majority of their employees.

ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment). Basically you work whenever, wherever, and however you want—as long as you get the job done. This option can only work if your employer is not only incredibly flexible but also incredibly clear on what you're supposed to accomplish. At the same time, you have to be extremely well organized and self-directed.

You don't have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.

There was something supremely sexy about a man who planned ahead like this, who wore his options like a tool belt, ready for any emergency.

I guess I'll just … play it by ear." She could have bitten her tongue off.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port—or at least in orbit—waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Mankind.

Nevertheless, when you did not know what you were looking for, it was important to avoid all prejudices and preconceptions; something that at first sight seemed irrelevant, or even nonsensical, might turn out to be a vital clue.

By mapping out possible futures, as well as a good many improbable ones, the science fiction writer does a great service to the community. He encourages in his readers flexibility of mind, readiness to accept and even welcome change—in one word, adaptability. Perhaps no attribute is more important in this age.

I should have known that a man can receive only what his mind has been prepared to receive, that all else is ignored, or interpreted to suit his prior interpretation—that man can only accept change through it being interpreted as no change, or not knowing it is change.

If they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.

There's no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to.

There were, it appeared, more ways to skin a Katz than one Ã¢â'¬Â¦

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

That's one of the good things about Coach Price. He doesn't expect us to be silent robots. As long as we do what he tells us, we can kid around and he'll kid back.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.