Quotes About Flexibility

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Say yes more.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

I don't think he even knew he had settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma. But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.—Stephen Covey

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. —Michael McGriffy, M.D.

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.

When change is required, there must be trust that the initiatives for that change will be dealt with appropriately.

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki And

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.

since a pen or pencil could easily be turned

It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

older theories become more and more unclear when one tries to use them to obtain insight into new domains.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Psychology often presents individuals as if they are frozen in time and space, describing their score on an intelligence or personality test, how they remember or what their inner conflicts are. All imply that people are fixed and that a description of them at one point in time will inevitably be true of them at another.