Quotes About Flexibility

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

interpret a thing in exactly the same way. The world is dynamic in that respect

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy. At first patients are taken aback by my bluntness,

Certainly we all have our deal-breakers. But when patients repeatedly engage in this kind of analysis, sometimes I'll say, "If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs—we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs—we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

Mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs- we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs- we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good,

we must be tolerant with ourselves and allow ourselves some deviations from the straight line we set up to follow. Even more we must allow others the same prerogative.

Life might not work out as you'd want it to, but you just got on with it anyway.

Just because I don't plan on finding The One, doesn't mean I'm not interested in The One For Now…

The easy road is always under construction, so have an alternate route planned.

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Ah, well. There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.

The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

But until I have a better idea, it's smarter to keep reminding myself that I don't know, rather than assuming that I do know, and then translating anything I learn to fit my preconceptions

There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

I hate it when a plan falls apart.