Quotes About Flexibility

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You can beat the Bear once, but never the same way twice.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.