Quotes About Flexibility

Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.

Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.

Don't be a perfectionist. Humans are imperfect. Human work is imperfect. Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed.

The problem lying behind the lack of human fulfillment was a shortage not just of time but of imagination. They found a day that worked for them and then stuck to it and repeated it, at least between Monday and Friday. Even if it didn't work for them—as was usually the case—they stuck to it anyway. Then they'd alter things a bit and do something a little bit more fun on Saturday and Sunday.

Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

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but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Sometimes we cannot control our world and hold it too tightly without squeezing some of the life from it.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Always keep your eyes on the horizon, but don't be afraid to tack with the wind. Take the two steps forward when you can, and don't worry about the one step back, as long as it's only a tactical retreat.

Or as Bill Buckley said in 1970, "I see it as the continuing challenge of National Review to argue the advantages to every one of the rediscovery of America, the amiability of its people, the flexibility of its institutions, of the great latitude that is still left to the individual, the delights of spontaneity, and, above all, the need for superordinating the private vision over the public vision.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

When you find you've written yourself into a corner, the thing to do is: remove a wall.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

But like everything else in India, the problem would be solved, provided there was no hurry.

What we call disorder and ruin, others who are younger live as the natural order of things.

All writers who are unprejudiced and open to the future know what they do not want better than what they do want.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.