Quotes About Flexibility

history is change. You can't stop it; all you can do is try to keep from getting run over by it.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

She couldn't be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

Therefore, the best policy for learning new things is to always keep a beginner's mind.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

When things don't go right, go left

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Tu opinión inicial acerca de casi cualquier cosa puede cambiar con el paso del tiempo.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation.

Some people, however, say that they do not eat eggs because they do no like them. This is suspicious. Eggs are tremendously flexible and can be prepared in a variety of ways, all of which are different experiences in one's mouth. If you say you do not like eggs, it is like saying you do not like books or light or wearing a ball gown. It means you simply have not found the right kind.

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.

Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.