Quotes About Flexibility

If I have to fight at 125, I'll do it. No problem.

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

As a rule I take things as they come and try not to expect or regret much.

I start trying things, without editing or judging myself. I think it's important to give every idea that comes to me a shot, no matter how weird," I said. "So let's do that, okay?

What I can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

This, for the benefit of those with only a sketchy grasp of football tactics, was a Dutch invention which necessitated flexibility from all the players on the pitch. Defenders were required to attack, attackers to play in mid-field; it was football's version of post-modernism, and the intellectuals loved it.

conversation was not something imposed from above, like an examination. It was more like a sofa that worked out the shape of your arse and adjusted accordingly

I've always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

I also believe that he who adapts his policies to suit the times will succeed, and he who does not, will fail.

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.

The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice," a Free French newspaper commented sarcastically.

When I was younger, I managed to overcome my resistance to new things. After a short period of negativity, I flung myself at the Cuisinart food processor.

a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

Continuity, he thought, wasn't the same as stagnation.

Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn't think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she'd known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

Sometimes a detour is more interesting than a planned route, and you get to the same place eventually.

To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way.