Quotes About Flexibility

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

By yielding you may obtain victory

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

The ability to accept and adapt gracefully to life's twists and turns is one of the greatest skills you'll learn. Should you plan for the things you want? Absolutely. But if you're not exactly where you wanted to be, exactly when you wanted to be there, don't sweat it.

Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts—the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

Fancy going out into the world under the impression that you can always have your own way! Would anything be more likely to lead to disaster?

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

Well, now, look. I thought otherwise but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let's examine the facts.

that it can be effectively done in almost any medium.

Always default to diplomacy. Admit that you may be wrong.

White is willing to meet them halfway

es mucho mejor empezar diciendo: "Bien, escuche. Yo pienso de otro modo, pero quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia... Y si me equivoco, quiero corregir mi error. Examinemos los hechos".

Remember the old proverb: "By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Welcome the disagreement. Remember the slogan, "When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.