Quotes About Flexibility

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.