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Quotes About Flexibility

Faith! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter...
~ Jonathan Swift, 1731
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
It's hard getting away from the office when you work from home.
~ Mike Baldwin, Cornered, 2007
Ahhhh, welcome to the paradox of the home office. The more flexible the arrangement, especially around kids, school and sports activities… the more likely one ends up twisted like a pretzel.
~ Rob Harrell, Adam@Home, 2001
Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.
~ Leslie Woolf Hedley
Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.
~ Cardiff Camera Club, c.1921
Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.
~ Harold Wilson, 1967
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
~ Abraham Lincoln, 1862
If the climate can change, then so can you.
~ @thedeadauthor, tweet, 2015
If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.
~ Jack Fyock
We won't break, Mary. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1862
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.
~ Author Unknown
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
~ Winston Churchill
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
~ Petra Collins
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way and it surely has not, she adjusted her sails.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
~ Arthur Ashe
The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
~ Dan Quinn
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
~ Maya Angelou
You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.
~ Taika Waititi
This line of thought led Toyota (and others) to conclude, eventually, that it often is more profitable to empower workers to be flexible "learning machines" than it is to invest in new capital equipment.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
Running a business with the customer in charge requires total dedication to becoming flexible.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
A work force empowered to learn and innovate must be the backbone of a strategy to create flexibility by removing constraints.
~ H. Thomas Johnson