Quotes About Flexibility

Take it from me, local government offices are mostly about flexi-time and cake. Cake comes in for birthdays, for house moves, for news of engagements, births, weddings, christenings, driving tests, kids making the cross-country team or passing grade one piano. There is no news too small that it can't be celebrated with chocolate brownies for the whole office.

If your mind is empty, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

A limber body is often the companion of a limber mind," she told them. "The body is the bridge between the mind and the emotions, just as the emotions are the bridge between the mind and spirit.

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

If someone wants to be in your world then they will be anything you want them to in it.

Unlike a fact, life can change at any time.

If you are faced with a lost opportunity, think of the shifting reality and be ready to catch it when it comes your way. This is the way reality functions.

A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can't give up. Why die? There is always another mission; it's the missions that keep you alive.

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

Wise, seeing that his well was ruined, made the best of a bad bargain. He arranged to take over the job for a dollar a body, and before the day was out had filled his well, sealed it, and earned himself sixty dollars.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

Okay, here's the tough part, but we know you can do it. If you run out of an ingredient or forget an item, substitute it with something else, borrow it from a neighbor, or make a different meal—just don't go back to the store. You can do it—it may take some time to perfect your system, but eventually it will be as easy as breathing.

Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also the ability to make up the rules for oneself, when they are needed, or to learn new rules through trial and error.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

This isn't freedom. This is mobility. Don't get those two things confused.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

We shouldn't ever think we know what's next. The only thing we can anticipate is the unexpected.

If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

There's a difference between a dream and a plan. There's nothing wrong with having a dream, but the danger is attaching your happiness to it, because life doesn't always go according to plan.