Quotes About Flexibility

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.