Quotes About Flexibility

When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we don't know what's really going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don't know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all.

Live your life as an experiment. Adopt an attitude of "I'm not sure what will help in this situation, but I'm going to experiment and try this." Sometimes the result will be, "Wow, did that ever not work!" But if it is, we've learned something. And now we can try something else.

Meditation is a process of transformation, instead of a process of becoming more and more set in our ways. And, as you know, as we get older it's very common to become increasingly fixed in our habits. But then you do meet people who, for some reason, are becoming more and more flexible and open as they age. Which kind of person do you want to be?

We can begin anything we do—start our day, eat a meal, or walk into a meeting—with the intention to be open, flexible, and kind.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." At

We're always looking for a permanent reference point, and it doesn't exist. Everything is impermanent. Everything is always changing—fluid, unfixed, and open. Nothing is pin-down-able the way we'd like it to be.

relax gradually and wholeheartedly into the ordinary and obvious truth of change.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

He enjoyed himself in Salford because, given half a chance, he enjoyed himself anywhere.

That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive.

Num universo de sim ou não, branco ou negro, eu represento o talvez.

Happy the man who demands no more from life than what life spontaneously gives him and who guides himself with the instinct of cats who seek the sun when there is sun and, when there is no sun, find what warmth they can.

Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody.

But what stands out in Japanese history, as well as in today's Japanese management behavior, is the capacity for making 180-degree turns—that is, for reaching radical and highly controversial decisions.

A young man who has the right strength for one organization may be a total misfit in another, which from the outside looks just the same.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

We need to encourage habits of flexibility, of continuous learning, and of acceptance of change as normal and as opportunity - for institutions as well as for individuals.

Like water, it slowed my descent. Like water, it gave me a feeling of buoyancy.

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can't help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

As Steve has said to me on more than one occasion: "The Chinese are the most rational people in the world. Until they aren't.

the emphasis on linear systems, top-down control, relentless efficiency and eradicating failure left little room for creative discovery and trial and error.

Experimental innovators like Rock, Brin and Page, Bezos, and Beethoven don't analyze new ideas too much too soon, try to hit narrow targets on unknown horizons, or put their hopes into one big bet. Instead of trying to develop elaborate plans to predict the success of their endeavors, they do things to discover what they should do.

entrepreneurs do not try to avoid errors or surprises. They seek to learn from them, just as chefs often arrive at new recipes through improvisation.

When much is known, procedural planning approaches work perfectly well. When much is unknown, they do not.