Quotes About Flexibility

As long as you can go on creating new roles for yourself, you are not vanquished.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Just as the most successful industrial plants are adopting the concept of "agile manufacturing," so the most successful contract workers make themselves agile through developing multiple abilities.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Sometimes things don't work out as they're planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.

Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.

Wei cleared his throat and said, "Have you heard the saying ` The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher '? It seems I've been the pitcher most of my life. I've forgotten how to be fluid. It feels as if I'm finally learning now," he said.

To be inflexible to the change around you is to live in fear. Qigong is a useful tool to improve your flexibility, both mental and physical.

Sometimes things change, and we have to change, too.

Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

the world is becoming more turbulent faster than most companies are becoming more adaptable.

If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.

A new answer usually requires new behavior, so don't be surprised if along the way to sizable success you change in the process. But don't let that stop you.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." —Will Rogers

I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes.

a rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

But this inertia often causes you to use a tool because you know it, rather than because it's the right tool.

Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin

You need to develop a mantra: "There will always be another trade." Learn it, know it, live it.

I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.