Quotes About Flexibility

If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. If

my grandpa and grandma aren't like me. They're more like sheets drying outside on a breezy day--they change directions without any fuss. But me, if I was a sheet and the wind blew me, I'd never stop flapping.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

contingencies

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

He acted like doing too much advance preparation would diminish his skills in improvising.

Mattis had a general operating philosophy which he articulated many times over the years: "You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your response.

Quarles accepted. Dowd thought he and Quarles worked well together. They could meet and talk, whereas Mueller was so rigid, he sometimes seemed like marble.

Just play it by ear," Bannon said. "We'll figure it out." That was the Trump way. Playing by ear, acting on impulse. Pure Trump.

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one's slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it's a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

I know that humour can take on anything.

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline—perfect discipline.

placing particular parts of the body into a position that will lengthen the muscles and associated soft tissues.

Swindoll Charles R.

the moment in which the mind acknowledge 'This isn't what I wanted, but it's what I got' is the point at which suffering disappears. Sadness might remain present, but the mind ... is free to console, free to support the mind's acceptance of the situation, free to allow space for new possibilities to come into view. [p. 29]