Quotes About Flexibility

From the point of view of the history of Marxism, Maoist ideology is noteworthy not because Mao 'developed' anything but because it illustrates the unlimited flexibility of any doctrine once it becomes historically influential.

With the disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection that could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization—the illusion that there are no limits to the changes that human life can undergo, that society is "in principle" an endlessly flexible thing, and that to deny this flexibility and this perfectibility is to deny man's total autonomy and thus to deny man himself.

The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

Er zijn in het leven weinig omstandigheden waaraan de mens niet went, vooral wanneer hij ziet dat iedereen in zijn omgeving ze aanvaardt.

When an athlete doesn't stretch before a competition, his risk of injury increases dramatically. If your concept of work is rigid, you, too, are much more likely to get hurt. Stretch your concept of work. As your last "To Do" for each day, include this one: Whatever it takes.

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

By remaining non-specialized, man opened up a thousand fresh paths for his own further development.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.