Quotes About Flexibility

Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

Don't get axle-wrapped 'bout what you can't control. You'll get your chance. Your job is to make the most of it when you do.

Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.

It was a Temple that could be hauled away in the night by anyone with a two-inch ball on his car bumper

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

How such views might steer clear of authoritarian dogmatism, head-in-the-sand private intuition, narrow professional specialization, or extravagantly broad but undependable

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles (Worries)

It was time for another album, and as so often happens, you'll set off in one direction, change horses in the middle of the stream, and the whole thing turns into something better than you had envisioned it.

Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not!

The danger for a small business is the inability to think and act big – The danger for a big business is the inability to think and act small…

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to." Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You understand?" "I understand. Though I disagree. Names aren't hats to change a look, or a suit to be swapped at a whim. Words mean things." "Then we must agree to disagree.

Why the world won't accommodate my every whim, I just don't know.

Every day," she'd told him, "you have to decide how to fail, and make the best of it.

As an old acquaintance of mine used to say, "If you can't duck it, fuck it." I'm pretty sure he knew it was duct and not duck, but I'll forgive him for the sake of the rhyme.

I slipped on through, slicker than whale shit through an ice floe.

think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain.

The ability to rapidly shift the focus of one's efforts is a key element in how a smaller force defeats a larger, since it enables the smaller force to create and exploit opportunities before the larger force can marshal reinforcements. Lind notes, and this is especially relevant to business,

Futurist James Ogilvy simply denounced managing through goal setting as "bunk." Instead, he recommends that: Organizations should tread near the edge of the future, making it up as they go along, with as much sensitivity, awareness, knowledge, compassion, feeling, and beauty as they can muster.139

There are call centres, credit card sales. Be open-minded and things work out.' 'Finish engineering and join a call centre?' 'Dude, don't be so shocked. We, like millions of other students, are the losers in the Great Indian Education Race. Be happy with whatever you get.