Quotes About Flexibility

As the United States continues its quest to provide health care to more people in more affordable ways, there will be temptations to mandate treatments that are shown to be grossly equivalent, but less expensive. It will be important to maintain flexibility in such a system, so that we do not denigrate the art of medicine, which allows individuality in the sacred relationship between doctor and patient.

There might be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly napped into place, like rubber bands

Because you'll go through so many changes, I don't think it pays off to overanalyze the first business plan, for example. The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Matt raised an eyebrow. "Tour the Greek cathedral, huh? We can call it that, if you want. Sure.

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.