Quotes About Flexibility

Deine Anpassungsfäheigkeit—Your ability to adapt," her husband said, "is far more dangerous to you than any of them will ever be. You'll keep adapting and adapting until nothing is left.

What is a creative person? It is someone who is willing to see the whole of life as an adventure, filled to the brim with exciting possibilities. He or she is willing where necessary to set aside old boundaries and to discover a new way of looking at things.

Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.

the advantages of bachelorhood: being able to get into bed from either side.

Willingness is giving up trying to control behaviors or outcomes. By giving up control you can do what is needed in any situation. Willingness is wholehearted, spontaneous participation, responding to situations as needed, without resentment or preconceived ideas of what has to be done, how to do it, or when to do it.

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

There are no straight lines in nature or business.

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Adventure, my dear, is as much a state of mind as anything else. One can travel the world and never find the excitement to be found within arm's reach. Remain true to yourself, but understand happiness may not always be found in the plans we have laid out for ourselves, but rather in the unforeseen turns life takes us. Do not close your mind, or your heart, to the unexpected twists of life. It is those unexpected paths that could well lead to the greatest adventures of all.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.