Quotes About Flexibility

Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

Some days I'm Uncle Situation, other days I'm Dr. Situation, I'm Chef Situation.

As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

Why can I do the splits? That's weird. I'm uncomfortable with myself.

Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.

If you are uncomfortable you are always adjusting.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.