Quotes About Flexibility

Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.

Blue Eyes, if you do not know the tosi tivo way, we must do it the Comanche way.

The six most expensive words in business are: We've always done it that way.

Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core.

To ask 'What should we do with our brain?' is above all to visualize the possibility of saying no to an afflicting economic, political, and mediatic culture that celebrates only the triumph of flexibility, blessing obedient individuals who have no greater merit than that of knowing how to bow their heads with a smile.

Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it.

you're one of those people with set opinions on how you want the world to behave. Always trying to bend the world to fit your liking instead of the other way around. So then, once you make up your mind how you want something to be, you start losing the eyes to see what it really is.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

I am not as unstable as people tend to think, but I allow them their margin for error because it allows me mine.

It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.

Life just rolls on, adjusting to whatever was subtracted.

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

Joseph Campbell that says something like "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you.

people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

Just when we think we have mastered what is expected of us, relationships change, new persons join us on the journey, or circumstances call for untried roles.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.