Quotes About Flexibility

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

Regular stretching makes your movements more sensuous and fluid.

Perfection is a moving target

definite. Naturally, how open-minded you

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

Life is about shifting the balance in favor of change, and try as we might to hold on forever to the best of moments, it's simply impossible.

the more you try to get reality to fit within your comfort zone, the more unprepared you are to deal with a world full of surprise, complexity, and change. Likewise, if we persist in trying to get our relationships to conform to our expectations instead of letting them be how they actually are, we may miss important opportunities to know ourselves and others more deeply.

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

Her advice boiled down to a consistent theme: that we all have to learn how to live with uncertainty, because some things are simply out of our control.

Listen. I can be whatever you want me to be. It's what I do. It's what I'm good at. Just remember that. You want me to be your best friend and fuck you? No problem. You want me to romance you, take you to dinner and shit? No problem.

I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again.

It's part of my job to weather the ups and downs. And

Once it's in the soup, I'll call it beef," Greasy Sae says with a wink.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.

When you do make losses, or you have businesses that don't succeed, it's about knowing when to stop and do something else.