Quotes About Flexibility

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Fundamentalism—the intellectual style, not the religious movement—is the strong disinclination to take seriously the notion that you might be wrong.

Applying inflexible rules to a constantly shifting political landscape destroys societies. Communism was like that. In free societies, people change, culture changes, the world beyond a nation's borders does not stand still. So a politician will find that what worked a decade or a century ago does not work now. In politics it is easy to get it wrong, hard to get it right.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

How old's Bulkus, exactly? Thirty? Forty, tops? Well listen, I've got two-thousand years of accumulated wisdom here, and I get it wrong sometimes. For instance, I thought you had something to you when I met you in the gorge: intelligence, flexibility of mind — hah! How misinformed was I?

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

E' bello decidere, ritiene, ma puoi anche decidere di lasciarti influenzare, di accettare un consiglio o in suggerimento perché così ti gira, di non cristallizzare il flusso della vita fissandoti su qualcosa di assolutamente contingente come la tua volontà

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

As your customer is changing how they buy, it's imperative that you change how you sell"

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

el mejor de la vida es viajar y perder las teorías, perderlas todas.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

In general, don't fight your frameworks. Seek ways to keep the fundamentals of domain-driven design and let go of the specifics when the framework is antagonistic.

Supple design has a profound effect on the ability of software to cope with change and complexity.

using constructors still doesn't prevent us from changing an object into something else later, because

Yes, a car is still a car, even if you change it later.

You can extend your object at any time with new properties. To do this you just specify the new property and give it a value. For

Take what varies and "encapsulate" it so it won't affect the rest of your code.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.