Quotes About Flexibility

Whenever the current is stronger than you are, that is the time to go with the flow. When you are able to be effective, that is the time to put forth effort.

It's a mistake to decree that a year's progress must take place within exactly one year, no more and no less.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable–much like the weather!

Now here's the thing about people who swear by routines. When they decide to break from the usual, they go big. The Greek salad is replaced by a large pepperoni pizza. The skipped day at the gym becomes a month of couch-potatoing.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I've been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There's really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

life itself was an improvisation in which I was going to have to deal with what came to me and not think about what should have come.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

This work is, as I said, improvisation, so we use whoever's around, if we can trust them.

Them as can't bend, like as not they break.

innovation is all about being distracted —distracted from the way we normally think about things.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Unless, as leaders, we are willing to enter this in-between space that disrupts our settled assumptions and threatens our formulas and expectations, we will remain locked into a monologue of church questions and strategies.

There's a famous and often-told story about the great economist John Maynard Keynes: once, when accused of having flip-flopped on some policy issue, Keynes acerbically replied, "When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.