Quotes About Flexibility

The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

Portability is for canoes.

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

When life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

You can't plan your life, Finn,' I say quietly, 'Because then you have a plan. Not a life.

The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —Leon C. Megginson

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.