Quotes About Flexibility

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective" -Scott

Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open.

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

I would survive this. I'd survived worse things. After all, I was bamboo, and bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Sometimes, you got to work with the mentality people bring.

My bisexuality is part of the expression of the flexibility, the changeability of my spirit that feels essential and precious to the center of my life. My bisexuality is a part of my desire to remain an outsider, to be able to "pass" into polarized worlds, to abandon expectation, to honor the mystery of being. My bisexuality is a celebration of the ever-opening flesh, the expansive, fluid mirror of social discourse.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

But the point is still valid: human relations are malleable, and if a person has the appropriate skills their rules can be transformed. But

Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

there are enough exceptions in every culture to show that goals are quite flexible. Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do. The existence of people like these shows that consciousness can be ordered in terms of different goals and intentions. Each of us has this freedom to control our subjective reality.

A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable. Instead of deciding how to act in terms of personal goals, he has to surrender to the things that his body has been programmed (or misprogrammed) to do.

An open stance makes it possible for a person to be objective, to be aware of alternative possibilities, to feel a part of the surrounding world.

With expectation, we're waiting for something specific that we want to happen, and we'll be disappointed if it doesn't. With expectancy, we release our own agenda in a person's life, allowing changes to happen that we can't control.

But the closer we become, the more the relationship will be challenged. Like a river overflowing its banks and moving in new directions, people are unpredictable. When someone we know goes against our expectations, we're uncomfortable and we want to move things back to our set point.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath use