Quotes About Flexibility

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. —DR. ROBERT

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," writes Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

When there are too many choices, or the answer does not seem obvious, it seems better to go with the flow; after all, you might miss out on something good.

Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.

Forget about plan "B" I'm now on plan "Z"

Life isn't always the way it's suppose to be, it's the way it is.

My gameplan is not to have a gameplan.

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We like to say "I changed my mind," but the human mind alters its direction so rapidly and constantly, we might as well say "My mind changed me.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Commuting can take a huge toll on people's productivity draining their energy during the early-morning hours, when they might otherwise be most effective. Organizations serve their employees and themselves by allowing employees to commute in off-hours or work from home.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

You believe it's cold, but if you build yourself a snowhouse it's warm. You think it's white, but at times it looks pink, and another time it's blue. It can be softer than anything, and then again harder than stone. Nothing is certain.

You first fight the waves, then you turn around and ride the surf, sailing along like a cork among the little rainbows of the foam, and land laughing and just a little frightened in the sand.

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

The plan is: there is no plan.