Quotes About Flexibility

She had discovered long ago that you could use a computer without understanding how it worked. Just as you could use an automobile, vacuum cleaner - or your own brain.

Too much change is as destructive as too little.

Life will always find a way. - Dr. Ion Malcom

Extinction was simply proof of failure to adapt

I reminded myself our lives are made of changes we can't control. Letting little things happen is a good practice.

if you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.

In short, businesses that 'get small again' die.

No hay buenas respuestas que duren para siempre.

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

To maintain an open mind about the future, it is very useful to keep an open mind about the past.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked.

Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know," said

If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.

Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know

The smart person accepts. The idiot insists.

Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes . . . and" rather than "No . . . but." "The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way. This is also true of the person who is deceptive or doing things wrong: he always tries to justify himself. A person who is bright in regard to his spiritual life is humble. He accepts what others tell him—criticism, ideas—and he works with them.

This is the secret of success for anywhere in the world, not just the monastery," he says, and then goes on to describe pretty much word for word the first rule of improvisational comedy, or for that matter any successful collaborative enterprise. Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes . . . and" rather than "No . . . but.

I've always felt ideas were a dime a dozen," he said. "If you had one that didn't work out, you should not fight too hard to save it, just go find another.

I think it is easier to take someone in the fishing industry and teach him about currency trading," he says, "than to take someone from the banking industry and teach them how to fish." He then explained why fishing

handles. One handle represents the nature of your business today, the other represents

If we remain adaptable, we remain strong. If we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak…

Carhart-Harris argues in the entropy paper that even a temporary rewiring of the brain is potentially valuable, especially for people suffering from disorders characterized by mental rigidity. A high-dose psychedelic experience has the power to "shake the snow globe," he says, disrupting unhealthy patterns of thought and creating a space of flexibility—entropy—in which more salubrious patterns and narratives have an opportunity to coalesce as the snow slowly resettles.

negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.