Quotes About Flexibility

You have to be dumb enough to be smart enough to do a job you know nothing about. Loose the pride....

If you are milking cows and feel that you know all that there is to be known about it, you have simply reached the point where you are useless and unfitted for the work.

The reader accepts anything, no? Even the starkest nonsense.

What is true changes, so we can't tell the truth once and be done with it. It's an ongoing game.

We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.

If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do it.

It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have

fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You'll be the eighty sometimes, you'll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.

We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.

there are ways of doing things you dont't know about

You'd better take time for 'em, honey, otherwise you'll never grow. You'll be the same at sixty as you are now—then you'll be a case and not my niece. You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.

they've never learned to live in this one

You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said. "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.

I challenge us to change, because as Charles Darwin once observed, "It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. 4.

It is the dance between chaos and order that is truly creative.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

I never want to be bound to anything. I always want to be able to come and go as I please.