Quotes About Flexibility

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.

Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: 'I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts.

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I think . . . the secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes.

If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

Be open to mystery. Not everything needs sharp lines.

Evite los compartimentos estancos.

The more open and unstructured a workplace, he believed, the faster new ideas would be sparked

Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.

Embrace uncertainty," the ads read.

Paul e Clara Jobs eram pais amorosos e estavam dispostos a adaptar suas vidas à situação de ter um filho que era muito inteligente — e também teimoso. Eles se esforçariam muito para servi-lo, tratá-lo como alguém especial.

We had to learn their vocabularies in order to be able to run their problems. I could switch my vocabulary and speak highly technical for the programmers, and then tell the same things to the managers a few hours later but with a totally different vocabulary." Innovation requires articulation.

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

the skills possessed by a designated leader or the holder of an office may make him well-qualified to perform important group functions under certain conditions and poorly qualified under others…. The specific requirements of the group's tasks demand that members possess certain skills in order to serve the appropriate functions. If the task changes, different behaviors are required, and the same person may or may not be able to perform in the new way.

FEW LEADERS ARE MEN FOR ALL SEASONS. THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINE an effective leader in one circumstance may be useless or even mischievous in another.

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.