Quotes About Flexibility

The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that can be changed should be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.

True self-confidence is "the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.

What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait?

Lo que aprendió fue que la auténtica confianza en uno mismo es «el valor de estar abierto, de darle la bienvenida a los cambios y a las nuevas ideas, independientemente de donde vengan».

qué consecuencias tiene creer que tu inteligencia o tu personalidad son algo que puedes desarrollar, y no algo fijo, y no un rasgo inalterable?

Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.

In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other—the world of changing qualities—it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

Of course, life does not always follow our scripts. We get feedback from what really happens; this sharpens our reality principle so that we can think things through more intelligently the next time. The point is, we live out some options and we imagine our way through others. In either case, we learn what we want, what we believe in, what our values are. We will never know who we are and what we want if we just stay in our old ruts. This is why we must wander a bit to grow.

One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.

You have to work with the cards that life deals you.

She was always changing her mind, imagining all the roads not taken. She was spongy, and sponges can't make big life decisions.

Night moves don't work in the morning

You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.

They're too young to understand how much of life is shaped by never the same.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Just because you're not uptight doesn't mean you're irresponsible. And vice versa. When will those Conservatives ever learn?

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

If I have any rule pertaining to my profession, that rule is: anything can happen today. Nothing is impossible.

there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

Thesis Number 23: "The power of government should not be used to compel everyone to learn the same things in the same way at the same place at the same pace at the same age.

Sometimes directly asking for what you want is not the best way to achieve a desired result." As this story shows, good negotiation is a continual exploration of the realm of possibilities.