Quotes About Flexibility

The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.

If we sometimes recast problems before we begin, more often we revise our specification in the process of actually tackling them.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.

at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. We

Life is what happens to you whilst you busy making other plans

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. You better believe it.

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

es la diferencia, fundamental en el campo de la estrategia, entre respetar las limitaciones y negar su existencia.

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.