Quotes About Flexibility

pero no existe la democracia perfecta, porque lo que define a una democracia de verdad es su carácter flexible, abierto, maleable –es decir, permanentemente mejorable–, de forma que la única democracia perfecta es la que es perfectible hasta el infinito.

Brain righties love open space.

All jobs are temporary in the new economy—henceforth you always need to be looking for the next opportunity.

It's not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, that survive; it's the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin

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There can be no true definition of normal because life is ever-changing.

One can't stop change. The best thing one can do is manage it so that one doesn't get crushed by it.

Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.

Nothing works all the time

much adapt to the environment as alter the environment

I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.

Feelers grow when feelers are needed and claws when claws are needed and cunning when cunning is needed. . . .

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

It seems to me that being the right size for your world-- and knowing that both you and your world are not by any means fixed dimensions-- is a valuable clue to learning how to live.

The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so.

y yo me adapto tan fácilmente a un método de vida, cuando es voluntario, que sólo hubiera deseado que éste durase siempre.

From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.