Quotes About Flexibility

Bloom Where You're Planted

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way you you think about it.

Bloom Where You're Planted". ? Mary Engelbreit

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

You cannot tailor-make your situations in life, but you can tailor-make your attitude to fit those situations. ~ Zig Ziglar

The cue allows more flexibility and control. But I imagine you'll prefer the mace—it's more moral." Clare's dark brows arched. "How can one piece of wood be more moral than another?

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

Mary Lynn Manns

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.

Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change

Commitment to deliver on time and on budget was not made based on the details; details didn't exist. Their commitment was based on the ability to shape the details.

However, if damaging behavior can be limited through the relationship rather than the contract, all manner of benefits in terms of speed, flexibility, cost, and information exchange can result. Unfortunately, these benefits are counterintuitive

There are few endeavors in which it is more important to keep options open than in software development. In Chapter 3, "Decide as Late as Possible

Schedule irreversible decisions for the last responsible moment, that is, the last chance to make the decision before it is too late.

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.

With a typical contract, one party decides what should be done and hands over the design to another party to implement and often to a third party to deploy and support. Although it may be unavoidable, such a contractual approach is far from ideal; it increases costs and decreases flexibility.

it is easier to change a decision that hasn't been made.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.