Quotes About Flexibility

wherever they popped up. If my kids were taking a good nap, I'd grab my laptop and lock myself in the home office. If my wife wanted to visit her parents in nearby Annapolis on a weekend day, I'd take advantage of the extra child care to disappear to a quiet corner of their house to write.

What makes general-purpose computing powerful is that you don't need separate devices for separate uses, not that it allows you to do multiple things at the same time. The

If your schedule is disrupted, you should, at the next available moment, take a few minutes to create a revised schedule for the time that remains in the day. You can turn to a new page. You can erase and redraw blocks. Or do as I do: Cross out the blocks for the remainder of the day and create new blocks to the right of the old ones on the page (I draw my blocks skinny so I have room for several revisions).

Your goal is not to stick to a given schedule at all costs; it's instead to maintain, at all times, a thoughtful say in what you're doing with your time going forward—even if these decisions are reworked again and again as the day unfolds.

Ryan and Sarah have heaps of control in their working lives, and this is what makes the Red Fire lifestyle so appealing.

Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan out a whole project in advance," he writes, "they make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins" [emphasis mine]. This rapid and frequent feedback, Sims argues, "allows them to find unexpected avenues and arrive at extraordinary outcomes.

Era mais fácil não se importar, ir com a maré e se preocupar com um dia de cada vez.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

On how important curatorial mobility is: You must move, and you must talk (but not too much), and you definitely must listen. - Francesco Bonami

Outta Da' Blue We all have experiences that are sudden occurrences. When the..."Where'd that come from" question arises, we ask others for input but sooner or later we should answer it ourselves. Being "blind sided" is being caught of guard. That's not always a not so good event. I was " blindsided" by Judy's presence. That was a good thing. When we choose to be of aware mind and flexible to changes, we are more enabled to handle... Da' outta da' blues as they surely occur. KnowyerLoved, CWD

By way of analogy, when you are driving on a slippery mountain road at night, you do not manage the hazard by getting out and drying off the pavement—you slow down through the dangerous curves. When dealing with people who won't let go, that means having strategies in place to lessen the likelihood of unwanted encounters. You change what you can and stop trying to change what you cannot.

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." People enjoying so-called beginner's luck prove this all the time.

Sometimes I feel, after a while, that I'm okay at 10 different things, whereas some people are really great at more. You start getting used to feeling mediocre, at least I do. But still, I'd rather be focusing on many topics than be bored. - Josh Long

If you'd rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won't hate you for more than a day. Maybe two.

Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

This kind of service-oriented architecture allows small teams to work on smaller and simpler units of development that each team can deploy independently, quickly, and safely. Shoup notes, "Organizations with these types of architectures, such as Google and Amazon, show how it can impact organizational structures, [creating] flexibility and scalability. These are both organizations with tens of thousands of developers, where small teams can still be incredibly productive.

Business agility is not just about raw speed. It's about how good you are at detecting and responding to changes in the market and being able to take larger and more calculated risks.

Just how many times can you throw out everything you know to keep up with the latest new-fangled trend

Unplanned work

As Dr. W. Edwards Deming is famously paraphrased, "Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.