Quotes About Flexibility

Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

Think sideways!

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

I am made all things to all men.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

I bend, but I do not break.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Perfection is out of the question.

He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing, nor left wing, nor any wing.

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Important principles may and must be flexible.