Quotes About Flexibility

Be thoughtful and strategic, but also be open to blessings arriving in unexpected forms.

Although our inherent message must never change, our methods must.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another.

Darwin: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives…nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.

He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his "pensée vagabonde".

Se i tempi non chiedono la tua parte migliore, inventa altri tempi

One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid

Sometimes thinking outside of the box can be the difference between life and death.

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.

Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.