Quotes About Flexibility

Defeat is embracing what doesn't work

The way to live a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and not care about what does not come.

This place changes its weather more often than I change my shirt.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Meow is like aloha — it can mean anything.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Irritably, Piatt replied that "in ninety days the land would be whitened by tents." But Lincoln would not take the bait. He merely replied: "Well, we won't jump that ditch until we come to it," pausing before he added: "I must run the machine as I find it." Piatt left dinner wondering why the "strange and strangely gifted" Lincoln remained "so blind.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

Harold MacMillan

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

How wonderful, to have lived in so many places.' He found her enthusiasm infectious. 'It was. It is. The attitudes. The ideas. No one's . . . stuck.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

But there are few rules or unwritten laws that are not broken when circumstances demand,

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Well, I might even get used to the idea that she had no tail.

Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air.

nothing changes when you say no, so say yes and let the world know you're open to possibility.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.