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Quotes About Flexibility

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
~ Pat Metheny
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
~ Horace
It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.
~ Larry Carlton
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
~ Grace Murray Hopper
It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
~ Pat Metheny
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
~ Gabrielle Roth
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
~ Nikola Tesla
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.
~ Norman Doidge
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
~ Thomas Huxley
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
~ Alan Kay
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
~ Ricky Williams
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
~ Arnold Bennett
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
~ Janet Morris
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.
~ Rene Dubos
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
~ Jewel
I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges
~ Val Uchendu
I have seen travel plans happen only when they were made overnight.
~ Sanhita Baruah
The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.
~ Eraldo Banovac