Quotes About Flexibility

Go with what is. Use what happens.

I didn't know it consciously at that point, but I had stepped into one of the most important lessons that New Orleans offers: Go with what is. Use what happens.

You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

Rules such as Write what you know, and Show, don't tell, while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

that no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.

Personally, I've found maturity an overrated quality except in wine, for both creative artists and lively people in general have much to gain from facing the world with the unsullied vision, flexible responses, and playful sensibilities of a child.

Kat? gerçekler hayat?n tek gerçekleri deÄŸil. Pek çok ve çeÅŸitli gerçekler vard?. Ä°nsan enerjisini doÄŸru odaklayabilirs, hangi gerçekte yaÅŸamak istiyorsa, belli bir noktaya kadar, onu seçmeyi baÅŸarabilirdi. Belki gerçeklerin en kat?s?ndan bile kurnaz davranabilir, onu bile yenebilirdi.

Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to all young mammals but are rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has , when it has advanced, not because it was sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, and rebellious, and immature.

Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.

The language's two main advantages are its simplicity and flexibility. Its straightforward syntax and use of indented spaces make it easy to learn, read and share.

dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

There's always a solution, I see that now," she said. "I just didn't understand it at first. It's not the solution I wanted. But there's always a solution. It's just not the one I assumed it would be.

Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Nothing fails like success. In other words, when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi. Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)

What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality.

Sometimes we're bitching and complaining about shit we can't fucking change. Make the best of those moments. Complete those moments. And after completing them, move on rather than sitting there and letting it fuck up your day. That's my suggestion. Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving.

What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality. What? Are you going to tell me you built a secret time machine to travel back in the past and unfuck this situation? I didn't think so. So why spend a second of time complaining about it, fighting it, or resisting it?