Quotes About Flexibility

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.

In my ordinary evening costume I took up the room of three men at least. In my present dress, when it was held close about me, no man could have passed through the narrowest spaces more easily than I.

Cuando yo sentía necesidad de dirigirme escaleras arriba, he aquí que mi esposa descendía por ella, o bien, cuando ella sentía necesidad de bajar, he aquí que yo ascendía. En eso consiste la vida matrimonial, según mi experiencia.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Seek not to have things happen as you choose them, but rather choose that they should happen as they do; and you shall live prosperously.

Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.

Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

You will come with us. We are at home with situations of legal ambiguity. The treaties under which our arm of the Registry operates grant us a great deal of flexibility. And we create flexibility, in situations where it is required.

Don't anticipate outcome," the man said. "Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.

I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans

I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans - Wintermute

Get used to disappointment.

I must know! Get used to disappointment.

I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.