Quotes About Flexibility

if you're dealing with monkeys, you got to expect some wrenches.....

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

That overall, all-inclusive, never-changing set of rules does not exist—for you are ever-changing, growth-seeking Beings.

Life Is Always in Motion, So You Cannot Be "Stuck

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

Don't try to pound them into your framework like square pegs into round holes.

People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody

We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.

William Faulkner was once asked how he went about writing a book. His answer: "It's like building a chicken coop in a high wind. You grab any board or shingle flying by or loose on the ground and nail it down fast." Like becoming a pastor.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

realized that consistency, a trait I had long esteemed, was sometimes not such a virtue after all.

I was pretty certain that the adventure I was going through now had made me a more creative, flexible thinker than I'd ever been.

If you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your way will smoothly carry you forward. While in unreality, you know but two alternatives which are both equally wrong. The one is "I can be happy only if everything happens the way I want it when I want it." The other alternative is "Since I have seen that so many times I cannot get what I want, I can never get it, therefore I can never be happy.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

You have to adapt yourself to the changing times. There is no other way. You must keep up with what's happening around you. You afford to be complacent on that front at all. Otherwise you won't be relevant.

It's a constant struggle to reinvent yourself and stay relevant.

It's so important that we tell customers what's going on as best as we can. And we're trying to do that. We don't often know ourselves, for so many different factors, but reliability, flexibility, and information are the three critical customer service orientations.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.