Quotes About Flexibility

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!

That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

I'll be into anything you want after breakfast and a coffee and serious medication, okay?

Still, he's a good sort, even if he grumbles about having to wear the tiara.

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

upper body to hold them steady.

People can get used to almost anything.

If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

Clarissa, I was calling to ask if you wanted to go to the Laker game tonight." Now, Clarissa was hurt. "This is really last minute." "I know, I'm sorry. I just got the tickets." "As I see it," Clarissa said, recovering, "you have two problems: One, I have plans, and two, I hate baseball." "Basketball," Aaron said.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.

The careful driver is not actually imagining or planning for all of the countless contingencies that might crop up; nor is he merely competent to recognise and cope with any one of them, if it should arise. He has not foreseen the runaway donkey, yet he is not unprepared for it.

the whole art of guerrilla warfare lies in striking the enemy where he least expects it and yet where he is most vulnerable

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Tunnel vision is deadly. We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision.

There is never only one Truth. There is only one truth at a time.

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.