Quotes About Flexibility

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

There is no such thing as bad weather," he used to say, "only inappropriate clothing.

martin learnt quickly to take every day as it came and never expect one day to be the same as the last

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

I think football is a reflection on life and society and you have to move with the times. I've moved with the times, I've had to.

The bottom line is, what are we doing to Obamacare? We eviscerate the law in our bill, and then we do things like expanding health savings accounts, which give families real flexibility. We reform Medicaid.

As people in business know, if you just sit on your hands and don't progress with the changing environment, you won't reform and improve the existing relationships you have.

I do a lot of Pilates on the reformer.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.

I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

If the audience wants to hear them, then I'm going to play them. I'll mess around with them a bit to keep it interesting, because it's frustrating when you see artists refusing to play their biggest hits.

If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Regarding scripts and projects, I've always been open to reading all sorts of genres and never closing myself off to one, because you never know what you might find.

Regarding my position, I feel really comfortable in any position up front.

Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.

You have to play your part as an actor at the end of the day, regardless of the medium.