Quotes About Flexibility

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

We must take things as we find them in this world.

Loose and forbear!

Make the best o' things that smoothes people's roads the most..

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Der einzige Mensch, der sich vernünftig verhält, ist mein Schneider. Er nimmt jedes mal Maß, wenn er mich sieht, während alle anderen immer wieder die alten Maßstäbe anlegen.

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could.

I could never plan a thing and get it to come out the way I planned it. It came out some other way--some way I had not counted upon.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..

His romance and charm lay in how well he did with what might have been and how gracefully he accepted what was.

No puedes quedarte ahí sentado esperando que el nuevo mundo se adapte a ti, eres tú el que tiene que adaptarse....

If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb

I'm not asking you to change your mind. Just bend your heart a little. Your mind will follow.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Follow an exercise routine in which there is no routine. Whenever something becomes routine, you don't pay attention to it anymore. I rarely do the same routine twice which keeps me interested and focused.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.