Quotes About Flexibility

conservative because "he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be."2

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Only that which can change can continue.

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players live.

Gazzy: Just Ten? Angel: No. Gazzy: Five? Angel: No.

Being a good leader is knowing when...to back off.

if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world—he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which

Keep your small mind open," said Nana, wagging a crooked pinkie finger at Jannie. "That's if you ever want it to grow bigger and don't want to remain a small person all your life.

Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

The right inspiration, [...]. That's the beauty of creation and imagination. Remaining open to what comes. The more seasoned the artist, the more capable he is of responding in the moment.

The Smileys, of course, are still the Smileys. They just have more room to frown in.

If life gives you lemons, learn how to juggle.

I guess. But not in the, uh, traditional way.

It's different from what he expected, but certainly not worse. Sometimes things happen in life, and we just have to accept them.

Zig when the world expects you to zag

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Unfortunately, I am not the typical, old-school, 'Yes dear, you're right,' just to get out of a situation. I am more of the type to work it out until you think I'm right or I think you're right.

Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines - historical, scientific, mathematical, and artistic-humanistic thinking. Beyond that, I am not in favour of a uniform system. I think there should be some choices.

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.