Quotes About Flexibility

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

But . . . if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things . . . about Holland.

resist change.

Julie started to see that we're all in Holland, because most people don't have lives that go exactly as planned.

It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

the beauty of the word sometimes, how sometimes evens us out, keeps us in the comfortable middle rather than dangling on one end of the spectrum or the other, hanging on for dear life. It helps us escape from the tyranny of black-or-white thinking.

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

I had come to a new way of thinking about time. It's not the hard and fixed thing we imagine it to be, no, it's something soft and pleated, and under extreme pressure, it folds

And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well.

It isn't a question of whether elephants can prevail over ants. It's a question of whether a particular elephant can dance. If it can, the ants must leave the dance floor.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

NECK: I am flexible. I welcome other viewpoints.

Make a Decision to Be "Willing to Change"!

Let's use the affirmation, "I am willing to change." Repeat this often. "I am willing to change. I am willing to change.

The neck represents the ability to be flexible in our thinking, to see the other side of a question, and to see another person's viewpoint. When there are problems with the neck, it usually means we are being stubborn about our own concept of a situation.

old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again," is so true. It doesn't mean beat yourself up and try the same old way again. It means recognize your error and try another way — until you learn to do it correctly.

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. - Myrna Landers

Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.

Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction.

Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing. That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late o change direction… [Gamache] knew the young minister was wrong, sometimes it was too late.

I often think we should have tattooed to the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, "I might be wrong.