Quotes About Flexibility

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything fell into place around what we wanted. Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.

strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a shaman who walks in many worlds.

Within this mercurial reality, our happiness depends less on how well or badly we tackle the myriad ordeals of our lives than on how dexterously we withstand the fact that the ground underneath our feet shifts constantly.

In this manner, language becomes a medium that allows the conscious and unconscious realms to come together in a fluid manner. From this viewpoint, self-stories are effective not so much because they help us make sense of our lives, but because they give us access to the spirited liveliness of language. Indeed, to the extent that our identities are tied to discursive structures, it could be argued that the mobility of language is directly linked to the flexibility of being.

Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking.

Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes. Know that it will be there when it says, "I shall be there when the wave has gone by.

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

It is remarkable what children will accept as normal, especially when their experiences have been sufficiently broad.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

paraphrasing from chapter 8) you must adjust to the culture established by the power [..] contrast between flexibility & ingenuity compared to structure & consistency. the former is about exploring new ideas and changing plans, the latter is about delivering on time(structured timelines, due dates) and in budget

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.