Quotes About Flexibility

The wisest man will let himself be swayed By others' wisdom and relax in time.

La moral siempre se adapta a la vida, y nunca a la inversa

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

As our physical muscles grow weaker, our emotional muscles grow stronger, and we're better at seeing the comedy in the tragedy, the advance in the setback, the good in the bad.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

If You Learn Only One Yoga Pose . . . . . . let it be supta baddha konasana.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Ivar appreciated Berning's reconciliation. The message from Ernst & Ernst was that if Ivar decided he didn't like some numbers, they easily could be changed. As the old joke went, when an accountant interviewing for a job is asked, "What is two plus two?" the best answer is not "Four," but "What do you want it to be?

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? Logically

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

we must employ tactics that allow us to learn as many things as possible without getting stuck in a particular way of thinking about those things.

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

Il n'arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu'on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu'on n'arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu'on n'arrive plus à replier une chemise comme l'avait fait la vendeuse. Les plis du tissu sont là, bien marqués, on les suit, mais le résultat n'est plus parfait, il est personnel.

He neither knew where he was, nor whither he was going, he could have no plan because he could foresee nothing, everything happening was inevitable and unexpected, he was an act in a whole chain of acts; and, though his movements had to conform to those of others, spontaneously, as part of some infinitely flexible plan, which he could not comprehend very clearly even in regard to its immediate object, he could rely on no one but himself.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.