Quotes About Flexibility

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

You are exercising what the poet Keats called your chameleon quality, the ability to 'tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character or another environment'.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

English speakers' guide to learning languages, lesson #3: If in doubt, try saying the same thing again in a different accent (lesson #1 being 'say it louder' and lesson #2 being 'say it more slowly').

academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.

I'm going to make the best choice I can and if that turns out not to be perfect, I'll keep my eye on it, analyze it, and modify it as I go.

Ammiravo il suo carattere, allo stesso tempo intransigente e flessibile, fidato e imprevedibile, orgoglioso ma anche capace di estrema sincerità, quando permetteva a qualcuno di gettare uno sguardo nella sua anima.

No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force.

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.

Next, think about likely questions or interruptions, and rehearse your responses. Then think of additional questions or interruptions, and how you would handle them.

O rígido, o já feito, o mecânico, contrariamente ao maleável, ao continuadamente cambiante, ao vivo, o desvio contrariamente à atenção, enfim, o automatismo contrastando com a atividade livre, eis em suma o que o riso ressalta e pretende corrigir.

A flexible vice may not be so easy to ridicule as a rigid virtue.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Much of the problem, though, lies not with how things have changed outside of us but with our lack of a skillful means for dealing with a challenging world.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.