Quotes About Flexibility

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'

She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.

Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.