Quotes About Flexibility

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

His hours of sleep were no more fixed than those of his meals.

The paradox of neuroplasticity, observes Doidge, is that, for all the mental flexibility it grants us, it can end up locking us into "rigid behaviors.

When it comes to the quality of our thought, our neurons and synapses are entirely indifferent. The possibility of intellectual decay is inherent in the malleability of our brains.

The genius of our brain's construction is not that it contains a lot of hardwiring but that it doesn't.

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27

Criminals in Ecuador follow the mantra of the U.S. Marines: Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge.

If markets change then so must brands.

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

Isn't life that much easier when you decide to want what is rather than trying to bend life to fit what you want instead?

If things don't go your way, you can change the way you feel about it.

Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.

We are all matelots of perception – our sails adjusted consequently.

You can change things by looking," Papa said. He showed me this with a coin. "Look at it this way," Papa said, showing me the round, flat side of the coin, the one with the king's head on. "Easy to see immediately what this thing is. It's a coin! No doubt about it. But look at it this way," and he moved the coin end-on, so it seemed a thin strip of grooved silver. "Not so easy now, is it? Remember, Mhairi, things don't always come with labels on.

When I was young, it was about winning, about making the other do what I want. But sometime in the last ten years…Well, I changed." She didn't look at Eric, but I got the impression their feet were touching under the table. "Now instead of charging at people, sword drawn, I find it much more enjoyable and productive to run alongside them, learn their stride and rhythm, whether or not we could run together in the long term.

Balance isn't about never going down, it's about free movement, self-determined movement.

He was younger than old Yvain, his voice as supple as a withy-wound chariot.

Don't interrupt, but be interruptible.

Just because something's always happened in the past doesn't mean it will definitely happen in the future.

All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family.

Pyrrho "You shouldn't rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don't commit, and you won't be disappointed.