Quotes About Flexibility

The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.

Politics consists more in profiting from favorable circumstances than preparing them in advance.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.

The Dalai Lama famously said, "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Use the meal mats as toilet paper.

We like to imagine our identities are fixed, while in reality so many adjust like chameleons to fit the circumstances around them. We tend to develop based on how we are nurtured and go where we are directed. -Humbuggle

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.

Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.

Oh, I'm not objecting, I'd let a confused dishwasher marry us.

The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options." Sazed

I'm a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires.

New tastes are like new ideas, young man - the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

The answer, then, wasn't to stop judging. It was to hold those judgments as mutable.

People are elastic, Wax thought. We can keep reshaping ourselves. And if we're not quite the same as before, well, that's good. It means we can grow.

school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

El cuerpo necesita muchas comidas diferentes para mantenerse sano. Y la mente necesita muchas ideas distintas para mantenerse aguda.

You can't control everything. But if you can control how people regard you, then you can find a place in this mess.

But the person who is willing to reconsider their assumptions? The hero who can sit down and reevaluate their life? Well, now that is a gemstone that truly glitters, friend.

I can see that the variety of humankind is what gives you strength. Your ability to change your minds, to go against what you once thought, can be a great advantage.

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.