Quotes About Flexibility

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

I'll go get the horse and buggy, you'll say. And I'll say, But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

She didn't fit perfectly into my new life, but the beauty of our relationship is that she hadn't fit perfectly into my old life, either. Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.

Is that okay?" he asks, backing down a little. "How about Tuesday?" I say. "Wednesday." His seriousness is cracking. "Tuesday and a half." "Tuesday and three-quarters.

Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it's right there.

perhaps because much further back I had had to face certain difficulties until I decided to accept the fact that a man must be what he is, life must be lived as it is… and you cannot live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."128

Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

Opinions constantly shifted and evolved, were fluid the same way thoughts were. Ten minutes into The Exorcist you might say, "This is boring." An hour later you could decide that it was the best thing you'd ever seen, and it was no different with people. The villain at three in the afternoon might be the hero by sunset. It was all just storytelling.

Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals.

a new group, flexitarians, who eat meat if not too many people are watching.

Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires.

But he didn't used to be this nice and agreeable, I complained to Hugh. Well, he is now, he said. Why can't you let people change?

UNDER CONSTRAINTS, CREATIVITY THRIVES

Don't impose your personal working style onto an organization that behaves in a different manner

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

Calvin was not of stone, and if there are Reformed people who are, they are poor Calvinists.

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Indeed, from my earliest years the idea of transformation has been central to my life. Naturally so, I suppose, being the child of diplomats. I changed schools, languages, countries and continents a number of times during my childhood. At each change I had the opportunity to re-create myself, to present a new façade, to bury past errors and misrepresentations.

Es sollte anders kommen als wir dachten, aber was kann man da schon machen? Man muss das Leben nehmen, wie es kommt, und sehen, dass man das Beste daraus macht.