Quotes About Flexibility

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

Sometimes in life, it doesn't hurt to avoid over thinking things. Be like a leaf sometimes, and let the wind guide you. Refuse to be drawn into deep, negative thoughts that are sure to deter you.

I ain't the kind o' person who turns up her nose at what's served her, just cause it ain't something else. I ate what the Almighty served me, and filled it up just fine. Eat what you're served, child, and season it any way you like. You do that and you'll get along all right.

English, like water, will find its own level. The language itself through usage and natural selection will see that what is survivable will survive.

In life, there might be situations that make you sink, It's just to make you stronger than you think, Be like mercury not like glass when you get troubles, Split but join the mercury bits before it's lost in life's puzzles

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

and continually evolving both the structure

refine your ability to "connect the dots" among seemingly disparate pieces of information. Threats do not come to us in neat little packages.

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes.

George Bernard Shaw made the point best: 'The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him … The unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself … All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Match Strategy to Situation

Transition failures happen because new leaders either misunderstand the essential demands of the situation or lack the skill and flexibility to adapt to them.

you can decide to learn and adapt, or you can become brittle and fail.

Building "ambidextrous" organizations that can do both of these well is a challenge. See Michael L. Tushman and Charles O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, rev. ed. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

preparing yourself means letting go of the past and embracing the imperatives of the new situation to give yourself a running start.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase.

The brain is like a massive LEGO set, where each of the individual pieces is quite simple (like a single LEGO piece), and all the power comes from the nearly infinite ways that these simple pieces can be recombined to do different things.