Quotes About Flexibility

With 'Silver Linings,' I didn't feel - I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, 'Let me go with it.' You have to know what you're doing, where you're going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you're out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple... like, 'Try something different,' or, 'Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.'

Caravanning can be as simple or as luxurious as you choose. My own experience is probably not dissimilar to that of many families across the country who also share this hobby.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Human adaptability simply doesn't get accurately captured in econometric models.

What does it take to build something so that it's really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you've made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there? You want to be able to mess around with it and progressively change it to bring it into an adapted state with yourself, your family, the climate, whatever. This kind of adaptation is a continuous process of gradually taking care.

When roles shift, ideologies have to shift, and ideologies hate to shift. The workaround is pragmatism—"a practical way of thinking concerned with results rather than with theories and principles." The shift is deeper than moving from one ideology to another; the shift is to discard ideology entirely.

Favor moves that increase options; shy from moves that end well but require cutting off choices; work from strong positions

Cuando nos enfrentemos a un problema de difícil solución quizá resulte fructífero preguntarnos: '¿Qué haría un microbio?

The temptation to customize a building around a new technology is always enormous, and it is nearly always unnecessary. Technology is relatively lightweight and flexible—more so every decade. Let the technology adapt to the building rather than vice versa, and then you're not pushed around when the next technology comes along.

most importantly, the entire body made light and nimble.

Lightness brings about nimbleness, nimbleness results in movement, and movement results in transformation.

The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

there are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied.

I'm capable of screwing things up by trying to solve all the problems in advance instead of simply taking care of issues as they surface. I

Openness to new experience and flexibility of belief seems to be easier when we feel safe and connected to others. Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.

Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

Self-questioning is a far more essential ingredient in life than I ever supposed. It's the water that keeps the modeling clay of our life from hardening into something forever rigid and unchanging.

even God should be allowed to change his mind. "Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.