Quotes About Flexibility

It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.

My children are grown... my husband is an international human rights lawyer and all of his work is outside of Canada. So, I have bags, will travel.

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

I'm like that, nothing sticks.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.

they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish – expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.

One thing I've learned over the past thirty years is to not anticipate the future - life has a way of turning out quite differently than you've planned. Those who have a cool attitude to the world, an emotional remoteness from the twists and turns of fate, are lucky. Accepting life's unpredictability, I've observed, is the best antidote to despair.

The two things vital to success: how to sense approaching danger and how to be flexible. This is where the war for the possession of India was fought - pitting Aryan reason against the primal beliefs of the tribals.

Things will never stay the same. The only one sure thing is change. That's why there's always tomorrow.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

For two nights running he had slept in his clothes on the floor of my bedroom at the Golden Eagle; nor had I tried to move him. I knew from experience that when Luther Martin decided to sleep on the floor (or in a cupboard—he was unnaturally partial to cupboards), it was pointless to protest.

The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.

When you feel unable to change your bar you have become old.

Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.

Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.

It makes me feel young to be wrong so often.

Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. 'Thus the tree grows,' he quoted, 'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.

I have an allergy to dogma, including my own.

it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Una volta un uomo saggio - un musulmano, badate bene - mi ha detto di sentirsi più vicino a un ebreo, a un cristiano, a un buddhista o persino a un ateo razionale e ragionevole che a un fanatico della sua stessa religione. E sono d'accordo con Winston Churchill, secondo il quale un fanatico è una persona che non cambia opinione e non è capace di cambiare argomento

A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.

I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.