Quotes About Flexibility

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are. This insight isn't new.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Cuando esté en un callejón sin salida, salga por donde entró".

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Atención porque cambiar de opinión debido a una nueva comprensión, y más si llega con gozo intelectual incluido, no es una muestra de debilidad ni supone una merma en la credibilidad del intelectual sino, más bien, lo contrario, una muestra de fuerza y una garantía de de credibilidad.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

A única perspetiva falsa é a que pretende ser única.

se a gente segue assim, para trás ou para a frente, vê que não pode se partir o fio da vida, mesmo que está podre nalgum lado, ele sempre se emenda noutro sítio, cresce, desvia, foge, avança, curva, pára, esconde, aparece...

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

To meet this many-headed Hydra, the president claims he—and he alone—must have the flexibility to define the enemy as he sees fit, and to act against it no matter what form it takes.

Sandpaw, it doesn't matter that the line is wobbly. Boundaries aren't whisker-straight, are they?

There's no normal. Not anymore.

But who exactly wanted you to look beyond the obvious choices?

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.