Quotes About Flexibility

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.