Quotes About Flexibility

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Consider

Eric Hoffer sums up where our emphasis should be in schools right now: "In times of great change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Let

Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.

Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility—that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary. Not the road less traveled but the road with the exit ramp.

Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility—that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary.

Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.

most of the unexpected changes we react to will turn out to be of no importance:

We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Look for opportunities to brainstorm new answers to old problems. You have lived with them for so long that you may have unwittingly given up any hope of solving them. Break through this block, not by finding the single right answer but by finding 10 or 20 new answers—the crazier, the better.