Quotes About Flexibility

When people think there's only one right place to stand, they say foolish things like 'You're doing it wrong.' All you have to do is go to the other side and look again at how many ways there are to see the world.

A planned life is a dead life.

What do you do when there are no passing planes?

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.

Sometimes it rains, and sometimes it is sunny. You accept the weather. You may not like the day's weather, but you do not label it 'good' or 'evil.' Shouting at a tornado does no good. Rebuking a tidal wave has no effect.

Plan the flight and fly the plan. But don't fall in love with the plan. Be open to a changing world and let go of the plan when necessary so that you can make a new plan. Then, as the world and the plan both go through their book of changes, you will always be ready to do the next right thing.

Rigid people are dangerous people.

the Zen concept of the beginner's mind, the mind that remains open and ready despite years of training. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," said Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

Logic doesn't work well for such nonlinear systems as chess and life.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.

the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.

You never got what you wanted ; you just learned to get by without it.

Mas o problema das regras (...) era que subentendiam um jeito errado e um jeito certo de fazer as coisas, quando, na verdade, na maior parte do tempo havia apenas jeitos, sendo que nenhum deles era exatamente certo ou errado e nada podia indicar com certeza de que lado da linha você estava.

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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."