Quotes About Flexibility

Billy's dad. His mom shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. Just relax, sweetheart. Lighten up. Go with the flow.

Los ejecutivos actuales viven con menos claridad y ninguna certeza a largo plazo; los competidores, los clientes e incluso las principales líneas de productos pueden cambiar radicalmente en pocos años. Como resultado, las compañías y sus ejecutivos deben hacerse hoy preguntas que en otro tiempo hubieran parecido estúpidas y poco plausibles: ¿quiénes somos?, ¿qué estamos tratando de lograr?

Un mundo implacablemente cambiante nos fuerza no solo a adaptarnos y a ser flexibles, sino a confrontar preguntas fundamentales sobre nuestra identidad.

Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar.

That's how it was supposed to be, and you really prefer things to be the way they are supposed to be. Funny, when you find things to be not to your liking you try to force them to be otherwise.

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is "should." I "should" have done this. Or I "should" do that. "Should" implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.

Most young people today know they need to approach their careers with a variety of skills, maximal flexibility, and readiness to retool as needed. That itself pushes youth toward extended schooling, delay of marriage, and, arguably, a general psychological orientation of maximizing options and postponing commitments.

There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.

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Maybe all of us could live several lives, giving some things up and gaining others, assembling different versions of contentment.

Ainsi, si un élément de réalité contredit l'une de mes croyances, je peux assimiler (déformer la réalité pour la faire cadrer avec mes croyances) ou accommoder (modifier ma croyance pour intégrer la réalité).

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called "a clearly-defined world view.

You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.