Quotes About Flexibility

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves...The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men and so with the paths which the mind travels.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn't come; but perhaps--as they would seemingly here be things quite other--this long ache might at last drop to rest.

Even iron sometimes melts.

I'm rather ashamed of my plans; I make a new one every day.

I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don't want to swagger, but I suppose I'm rather versatile.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

if you happen to be a boss, you never want an employee to do exactly what you tell him to do. You want him to occasionally do what you don't tell him to do … often what you can't tell him to do, because many problems can't be anticipated.

2. Almost everything is negotiable

Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.

yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

If you had told me ten years ago that I would be able to go and make out with Will Forte one day and then Woody Harrelson the next, it would have blown my mind.

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Some people are happy to work in a particular domain or some field of computer science for years, and years. I personally like to kind of move around every few years, just to learn about new areas.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

Too many people think life is a yellow brick road. We learned that hardships make you better and that you have to adapt to your surroundings. And then you understand.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.