Quotes About Flexibility

Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules

Sometimes there are no rules.

I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway, what's wrong with Maybe?

swayed and stretched, but it was sturdy enough to hold their

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available.

I who had before clothed myself in the bright garb of sincerity must now borrow one of divers colours: it might sit awkwardly at first, but use would enable me to place it in elegant folds, to lie with grace.

President Barack Obama's observation that the prime minister had "one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new," Putin said, "We don't spread our legs.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine and it solves problems by changing its ways. It

These new people had something special: they were not prisoners of their ecological niche, but could change their habits quite easily if prey disappeared, or better opportunities arose.

So plants can withstand almost any loss, and regenerate easily. They are utterly decentralised.

What is it about human beings that enables them to keep changing their lives in this tumultuous way?

fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.

There is no permanent ideal of disease resistance, merely the shifting sands of impermanent obsolescence.

Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten.

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.

Anxiety is very accommodating. Minutes ago, Stevie's anxiety was all about failure. It neatly converted itself into worry about places called Bounce Houses and not having hot water or air-conditioning. It was perfectly ready to bring the snakes to the party. It's a big tent. All problems are welcome.

People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.

It was also helpful that the hotel's owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests was better than one with no guests at all.)

My grandparents are great people, but they are easily rattled. Like, if the grocery store sells out of some frozen pizza or soup they advertise in the circular, and they've gone to the store just for that, they'll stand there debating their next move for a half an hour.

Things change. Never act is if situations won't change

That's why I can sleep anywhere now.

What you don't realize at the time is that you're not seeing the full picture, You don't think about the fact that things will change. Things always change.