Quotes About Flexibility

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

If an athlete like Michael Jordan played tennis, he would be the best - he's flexible, not too bulky, and has unbelievable hand-to-eye coordination.

Fit Finlay and guys like that, who can work with you and tailor who you are and what you're doing in the ring, are unbelievable.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.