Quotes About Flexibility

we can get the most from the technologies when we "listen" to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

We don't need to be blind to this continuous process. The rate of change in recent times has been unprecedented, which caught us off guard. But now we know: We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We need to believe in improbable things more often. Everything is in flux, and the new forms will be an uncomfortable remix of the old. With effort and imagination we can learn to discern what's ahead more clearly, without blinders.

We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We

I was not flexible, lived a life that required me to be tense at all times in case someone tried to fuck me over, and I found the simple act of making my spine erect, making my pelvis and thighs do regular stuff, was a little more difficult than I'd expected.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view. Even if you feel strongly about something, learn to keep silent.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

Doesn't really matter how old you are or how many times, every decision is a new one. You just got to go with it sometimes, right or wrong. Find a way.

What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Making everything easy to change, makes the entire system very complex...

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

Having been burnt in Iraq and Afghanistan, the logical response of America, if it were supple, flexible, and rational, would be to walk away from getting involved in unnecessary conflicts in the Islamic world. The inability to make this U-turn demonstrates that, like the old Soviet Union, America has become rigid, inflexible, and doctrinaire.

Negotiations only succeed when countries have the flexibility to make compromises at the negotiating table. American diplomats are severely handicapped in this respect. Both absolute power and conflicting demands from domestic agencies leave American negotiators with little room for flexibility.

Ultimately, physical, psychological and spiritual mastery are one and the same. The egoless self is open, flexible, supple, fluid and dynamic in body, mind and spirit.

In direct confrontation, the [Japanese] women might yield like blades of grass -- and spring back just as quickly. One of them compared this flexibility to the Vietcong guerrillas…

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace -- I'd play anywhere.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

Resilience) acknowledges from the outset that things will go wrong. All of our solutions will eventually outlive their usefulness. We will make messes, and disruption we do not cause or predict will land on us. This is the drama of being alive.