Quotes About Flexibility

The realization that the best way to get things done is to let go. Here's the thing. . . . It's often the case that people want to help you or work with you. But they can't if you insist on holding on to tight control. The more you let go, the more people will surprise you.

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

Cus D'Amato, Mike Tyson's legendary first trainer, famously said: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

when I speak with anyone about anything, I try to hold their perspective with a "light grip": the knowledge that they, and I, have very incomplete maps of reality.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

he explains the secret of his success this way: "There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan.

Si intentas predecir lo que interesará [al público] y haces contorsiones para adaptarte a esas expectativas

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

Sometimes, whether in the world of fire-making or cooking, finding the path of least resistance is as easy as Googling "backward," "upside-down," or "reverse," plus whatever skill you're deconstructing.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

Grow with the flow

Our relationships will never work according to our plan

I wanted to serve, but it had to be on my terms and on my time schedule.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

Go into everything thinking it may be temporary.

Living in the present doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't plan ahead. You need to have an intention in mind when you embark on something, but the thing to do is make plans and then wait to see what happens. There are no guarantees.

Another way of allowing more freedom into the mind is not holding fixed ideas about people and things.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.

But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.