Quotes About Flexibility

A man must take the fat with the lean.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you know.

Hay que tomar las cosas como vienen; eso es lo que tenemos que hacer en esta vida.

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

first rule of tropical weather—don't fight against it; go with it.

People tend to conceptualize problems in such a way as to validate the tools that are familiar and available to them. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If all you have are antibiotics, you will always look for the germ. If all you have is a mindset of war, then you will always look first for an enemy.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

No conozco ninguna norma en cuestiones de religión, filosofía, ciencia, ni complicación de las tareas domésticas, que no pueda ser moldeada para que se ajuste a cualquier exigencia. Ajustamos las normas a nuestras opiniones o quebrantamos una ley que nos apetece quebrantar

That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

The best parts of life can come unplanned.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

English is illogical in places. Trying to make it logical is a mistake. Instead, bend to it.

you are meant to play the ball as it lies.

Guarda tu l'acqua: perché dicono che è saggia? Perché prende la forma del vaso ove la si versa." "Anche il vino, mi pare!

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

It was a rigorous result in information theory that once you could learn in a sufficiently flexible manner – something humanity had achieved in the Bronze Age – the only limits you faced were speed and storage; any other structural changes were just a matter of style.