Quotes About Flexibility

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

Churchill sent Keynes a cable reading, 'Am coming around to your point of view.' His Lordship replied, 'Sorry to hear it. Have started to change my mind.' "7

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you have to plan for a future beyond the forecasting horizon, plan for surprise. That means, as Danzig advises, planning for adaptability and resilience.

the facts change, I change my mind.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.

We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.

We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.