Quotes About Flexibility

Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

I tried not to smile as I gathered the marbles. After counting them out by color and placing them into the holes, I looked at Sapphire and shrugged. 'There aren't enough.' Miz Obee's face tensed, but Sapphire looked at her friend kindly, patted the table, and said, 'Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.' I thought that was one of the wisest things I'd ever heard anyone say.

I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary.

The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical.

One of the most encouraging new discoveries that the human brain has made about itself is that it can physically change itself by changing its accustomed ways of thinking, by deliberately exposing itself to new ideas and routines, and by learning new skills.

Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.

I would never say no to something the team wanted to do, but I might say yes to something the team didn't want to do. You want there to be multiple ways to get to 'yes' because you want to encourage risk-taking.

The survivor is the one who improvises, not follows, the rules.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

Do not expect the world to facilitate you if you are not willing to adapt yourself. Let's

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

I try to be able for life to happen to me.

Whenever you are stuck with a problem, try something new. Do something—just one thing—different. Break the pattern of the problem. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!

Integrity, resourcefulness, and agility

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

I've never been the actor who did one job, and everyone went, 'Wow!'

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And I've read others that were kind of a slog, and I've put them down and come back six months later thinking, 'Wow, this is great.' So, you know, things change all the time.

We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

Our welfare and health services must work for everyone. That means ensuring that all the help and support is wrapped around the person when they need them, not trying to make the person fit the system.