Quotes About Flexibility

Leadership is an improvisational art. You may have an overarching vision, clear, orienting values, and even a strategic plan, but what you actually do from moment to moment cannot be scripted. To be effective, you must respond to what is happening.

Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to accommodate errors; that is, a large safety margin was left to ensure that mistakes would not develop into catastrophes.

The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

We can eat and digest everything from rancid mammary gland secretions to fungi to rocks (or cheese, mushrooms, and salt if you prefer euphemisms).

Not a word of what he said remains in my mind, but I remember going away with the impression that it was possible to live without knowing everything, after all, and that I might even try to be happy in a world full of riddles.

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

A man don't always have to change the land. He can find a way to fit in.

There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.

If life gives you apples, eat them. If life gives you lemons, throw them at a wall and say 'the heck with that!'

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Love is like war; begin when you like and leave off when you can

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

The formula for a happy marriage? It's the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don't dwell on it

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Life is about adapting to changes every step of the way....

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all.

If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.