Quotes About Flexibility

Love takes tweaking.

It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.

The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster.

there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.

Good at his job, I guessed, but probably not at ease with things that fall outside his comfort zone. He was going to love us.

The Double Cross idea had always been based on lateral thinking without boundaries, a willingness to contemplate plans that others would dismiss as unworkable or, frankly, barmy.

We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Critically, we need to be more flexible in how we help people acquire job skills.

must be prepared to think outside the box,

They want agility and force, but they also want predictability and steadiness,

but he was keeping an open mind about whether we needed to act at it. "I'd

to respond flexibly to economic developments without the constraint of an announced target.

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

I agreed that it would have been better to tie our policy plans more directly to conditions in the economy rather than setting a date.

however, I thought we might be thinking too narrowly.

Aunts, I have learned, never admit defeat. In the face of overwhelming forces, or incontestable facts, they simply change tack. Had Napoleon been an aunt, he would never have done anything so vulgar as to 'retreat' from Moscow. Rather, he would have framed his return to Paris casually as a question of clothing and etiquette, noting it was unseasonably cold for October and declaring that–like fish and family–armies of invasion go off after three days.

When you can't fight or flee," she says, "you flow.

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

el mundo me parecía un lugar de posibilidades, de oportunidades; al igual que él, consideraba el destino no una fuerza fija sino maleable.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

There are three kinds of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move.