Quotes About Flexibility

It sort of violates every known principle that we have," he admitted. "But every once in a while, you should test that you really have the right principles. You don't want to end up too rigid.

Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

During times of pandemic, people need to be able to tolerate or accept a certain degree of uncertainty. People who are unable or unwilling to accept uncertainty are likely to experience considerable distress.

The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.

My friend would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

She'd taken her environment so much for granted, unaware that things inevitably change, and so they did.

His way might be the right way. It is certainly one way. Why not let him proceed and see what happens?

Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.

We don't all need to be geniuses; some of us just need to practical applicators and adapters.

Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.

Things happen and you change directions

Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.

Living the basic good-mothering guidelines enables a mom to blend the responsibilities of parenthood with its joys; to know when to stand her grown and when to be flexible; and to absorb the lessons of the parenting gurus while also trusting her inner voice when it reasons that another cookie isn't worth fighting over, or that her child won't suffer irreparable trauma if, once in awhile, Mom puts her own needs first.

811. Focus on the here and now, forget yesterday's behavior, and don't predict tomorrow's. Every day with ADHD is different from the next.

If you control your reading too much, you cease to be involved in it.

Life's sloppy...You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

If you're intent on making a path through the woods and you come to a tree that's in the way, the tree has to go or the path has to change course. You keep making those choices until you have your path. After the thing was done , I realized, You just do it~that's how you do it. You have to figure it out. 'There ain't no rules around here,' said Thomas Edison, 'We're Trying To Accomplish Something.

Don't become too attached to your own myopia. Just because you've found a way to do things doesn't mean it's the way to do things. There are so many different ways in which to navigate this so-called life. Be open to experiencing more than one.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.