Quotes About Flexibility

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence

And what happens when the source of borrowed strength—be it superior size or physical strength, position, authority, credentials, status symbols, appearance, or past achievements—changes or is no longer there?

With a mission statement, we can flow with changes. We don't need prejudgments or prejudices. We don't need to figure out everything else in life, to stereotype and categorize everything and everybody in order to accommodate reality.

Jei koki? nors aplinkybi? negalime pakeisti, turime ramiai jas priimti ir dom?tis tais dalykais, kuriuos pakeisti galime.

Either way—authoritarian or permissive—you have the golden egg mentality. You want to have your way or you want to

More often than not, a person's center is some combination of these and/or other centers. Most people are very much a function of a variety of influences that play upon their lives. Depending on external or internal conditions, one particular center may be activated until the underlying needs are satisfied. Then another center becomes the compelling force.

If we don't continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We're locked into our present situation

I'm a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

That's the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable." The

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. —Peter Drucker

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

The real jewel in this distinction is that we are NEVER stuck where we are. We can learn our way through or out of anything. We have neural pathways in our brains that can support the adoption of new ways of being—no matter our ages. We have unlimited capacity for curiosity, learning, knowledge, and wisdom, throughout our lifespans. We possess the mental flexibility to move past "what we know" or—more accurately— "what we think we know.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

As little children we readily accept the first story we're given at home, or school, or church. We're told stories of nationalism, religion, racism, politics, and family. All too often we accept them before we learn to weigh them against other views. And all too often we're inclined to accept these (or other) frozen views rather than see each situation for what it is.

When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting.

Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

To experiment effectively, you must be willing to change your beliefs based on the results of the experiment

Because successful programming depends on minimizing complexity, a skilled programmer will build in as much flexibility as needed to meet the software's requirements but will not add flexibility—and related complexity—beyond what's required.

The problem with problem solving is that it is a mode of mind that does not know when to stop.

Psychological flexibility can be defined as contacting the present moment as a conscious human being, fully and without needless defense—as it is and not as what it says it is—and persisting with or changing a behavior in the service of chosen values.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations.

A good way to assess for self-as-context is to examine the flexibility of perspective taking via the interview itself.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious.