Quotes About Flexibility

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

I can't see straight. But that's okay.

I had the sense that cities were yielding, that they moved over and made room.

Taking it day by day, seeing how things go? Last I heard planning only gives God a good laugh.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed.

Given the thin line between success and failure, knowing that what works in one circumstance might be disastrous in another, what do such operations have to teach us? It's certainly not that daring military action is or isn't the better course; it's that daring thinking about one's options is always the better course.

It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution".

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind, there are few.